Exit velocity is the speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat. Statcast measures it in miles per hour, and it indicates ...

A few weeks ago, I discussed the option of moving beyond current metrics for summarizing exit velocity, such as the raw mean and the 90th percentile. The reasons for this include that (1) the exit ...

So, now to a more complicated metric. It combines what we discussed about exit velocity and launch angle. We are going to ...

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

The top 15 is filled with hitters that you know hit the ball consistently hard, so I'm not going to talk about most of these guys. However, I did want to highlight a few below that I think could still ...

Riding MLB’s surge in analytics, Full Swing debuts KIT for baseball, a monitor aimed at coaches, teams and training ...

For each of the past few seasons, Baseball America has used sourcing to obtain non-public Statcast data so that we may provide greater context for the prospects we cover. Ultimately, this additional ...

At the end of last season, we examined the players who saw significant jumps in their exit velocity data year over year. Contained within that list were names like Daniel Schneeman, Luis Vazquez, ...

So much happens over the typical weekend that it can be difficult to pin down who the top waiver wire priorities are. But this weekend was different. This weekend offered up two obvious standouts ...

Full Swing, the golf simulator and launch monitor trusted by Tiger Woods and other top professionals, is expanding its ...

Oneil Cruz, truly one of the more exciting young players in Major League Baseball, torched two of the season's hardest-hit balls in the same game on Tuesday night and people talked about it because, ...

This article was originally published on December 13, 2024. In modern baseball, few measurements are more watched than a ball’s velocity off the bat. In and of itself, higher velocity does not ...