Skeptical of bat speed, Michael Salfino analyzes outliers defying the link between bat speed and max exit velocity.

When Juan Soto steps to the plate this weekend in the Subway Series, he’ll be missing something. Not the camaraderie of his former New York Yankees teammates, or the protection of any legendary ...

The Mariners are swinging slower and hitting worse, but connecting these dots isn’t as simple as it seems. Bat speed is down for half the Mariners’ lineup over the first 2 1/2 weeks of the season.

Baseball Savant added bat speed measurements to its pages today. It’s yet another excellent addition to an outstanding website. It will allow a whole lot of people to study a significant aspect of ...

What do you look for in a prospect? Bat speed. How did they find players who swung the bat quickly? By watching hundreds of players every spring. StatCast made the category a little more clear, ...

Over the past two decades, the rise of technology has allowed baseball to quantify the previously unquantifiable. First, it was fastball velocity for every MLB pitch. Then it was spin rate and pitch ...

Baseball is a game of numbers, and Major League Baseball just released a bunch of them to break down batting. MLB's Hawk-Eye tracking system uses 12 cameras around each team's ballpark, including five ...

Ask most scouts about bat speed and you’ll often get a succinct definition. “It’s the time it takes for a hitter to go from the launch position to the contact point,” says Orioles Scouting Director ...

We are more than two weeks into the 2026 season and overreactions reign supreme. So we are going to look at some early data, examine the historical context of that data, and make our best guesses as ...

The Mariners are swinging slower and hitting worse, but connecting these dots isn’t as simple as it seems. Bat speed is down for half the Mariners’ lineup over the first 2 1/2 weeks of the season.