When you want to increase exit velocity, the advice to "swing faster" is easy to understand. However, just because you can ...

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 ...

Jac Caglianone struggled in his MLB debut last season but his swing metrics hint at a better sophomore campaign. Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images The tools are new. Mistakes will be made as we try to ...

Bat speed numbers are the new exit velocity. Every leaderboard refresh produces a tweet, and every tweet implies the same thing: swinging harder is good, full stop. It isn't. A bat speed gain only ...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits a home run against the Seattle Mariners in Game 6 of the ALCS. Mark Blinch / Getty Images Improving as a player doesn’t usually boil down to that “One Cool Trick That ...

Baseball teams have long searched for a way to study the entire swing without sensors or complex lab setups. Today, a new solution is entering the picture. Theia, an AI biomechanics company, debuted a ...

It's a commonly held belief among fantasy players that it's much easier to trust a breakout pitcher after just a few weeks than it is to buy into a breakout hitter. That belief was widespread because, ...

On Wednesday, Statcast dropped a brand new set of metrics to measure a hitter's bat path both on the way to contact and at the contact point. This is important data because bat path is one of the ...

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 ...