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.

Today we are looking at bat speed. 2026 fantasy baseball bat speed can provide us with key early indicators of slumps or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Mookie Betts is looking to get back on track in his seventh season with the Los Angeles Dodgers after uncharacteristically struggling at the plate last year. Betts’ 2025 season got off to an ominous ...