The Baltimore Orioles are a lesson in successful rebuilds, having gone from 115 losses in 2018 to one of the best teams in baseball — with one of the best farm systems — in five years. The O’s won the ...

This week began with a banner day for baseball nerdery (this writer included) when MLB’s website Baseball Savant released metrics on bat speed and other new hitting metrics. Now, instead of wondering ...

As I'm sure you've heard/seen if you spend any time on Fantasy Baseball Twitter, there are new leaderboards on Baseball Savant that provide daily bat-tracking metrics. In data going back to April 3, ...

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 ...

On Monday, baseball nerds everywhere celebrated Baseball Nerd Christmas, that most special of holidays. Baseball Savant released new metrics for public consumption, and they’re absolutely fascinating.

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, ...

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 ...

Last year, Statcast gave us some fun new toys to play with when they dropped their Bat Speed Leaderboards. At the time, we discussed that bat speed had a close correlation to power, with every 1 mph ...

Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino (9) drives in three runs with a single in the eighth inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Kauffman Stadium. Peter Aiken Imagn Images Like many of ...