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 ...
If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. As baseball fans, we have become spoiled by having nearly every action on the field captured and tracked ...
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.
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 ...
Track it. Vet it. Scout it. Get it. That’s been the playbook when it comes to new publicly tracked statistics in the past — they’ve moved from fancy new numbers to accepted metrics and then scouting ...
Earlier in the season, Statcast unveiled their new bat tracking data, which gave us a handful of new leaderboards. Here at Rotoworld, we broke down all those metrics with James Schiano looking at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earlier in the season, Statcast unveiled their new bat tracking data, which gave us a handful of new leaderboards. Here at Rotoworld, we broke down all those metrics with James Schiano looking at ...