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 ...

Baseball season is in full swing, but batters might be noticing that their skills are a bit rusty or could use some improvement. It's a common goal for high school baseball players to improve their ...

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 ...

Contreras has elite bat speed, ranking in the 95th percentile (76.6 mph) among major league hitters. Only 10 qualified big ...

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 ...