Cam Smith Has 97th-Percentile Bat Speed and a .218 Batting Average. One of Those Numbers Is Lying. Cam Smith's Baseball Savant page is one of the more disorienting documents in fantasy baseball right ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not just about home runs. Pay attention to bat speed, hard-hit rate and barrel rate, too. With just two weeks of games in the bank, we don’t have nearly enough data to draw any conclusions about ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’re the manager perched on the top step of the dugout. Two outs in the ninth inning, score tied, your runner at third base. Next up is your hitter whose swing generates the fastest bat speed in all ...

Talking to Mookie Betts, I almost wanted to pull an Allen Iverson. “Bat speed? You’re worried about bat speed?” An eight-time All-Star, seven-time Silver Slugger and three-time World Series champion ...

The modern era of MLB baseball is full of new and interesting statistics, and a brand new one just dropped: Average Bat Speed. There's more data than ever before in this sport, and statisticians can ...

Last week I kicked off this series with a primer, to which I will refer you with questions on the nature of this beast. For our first foray into the weeds this week, I was piqued by a question in my ...