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Bat Speed Risers and Fallers: Breakouts coming for Pete-Crow Armstrong and Ryan Mountcastle?

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

Weighted-bat drills in offseason produce faster swing for Astros' Alex Bregman

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Astros hitting coach Troy Snitker called Alex Bregman early this offseason with an intriguing proposition, one aimed at helping the third baseman produce more power in the ...
The New York Times

Fantasy baseball notebook: Digging into the ‘shiny new toy’ that is Statcast’s Bat Tracking leaderboard

It was a fantastic week for shiny new toys with the arrival of a Bat Tracking leaderboard at Statcast’s Baseball Savant site. Eno Sarris wrote about it Monday, with insight from players and coaches ...
NBC Sports

Bat speed leaderboard: What is it and who stands out?

As I’m sure you’ve heard/seen if you spend any time on Fantasy Baseball Twitter, there are new leaderboards on Baseball Savant that provide daily bat-tracking metrics. In data going back to April 3, ...
NBC New York

From bat speed to swing length, takeaways from MLB's newest bat-tracking data

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 ...