Baseball Savant Tips, Tricks and Site Updates
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So as you've probably seen, public bat tracking data from Statcast is available at Baseball Savant.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/leade…
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The Statcast bat tracking leaderboard is live. Here's a first look at the fastest bats in the Majors ➡️ mlb.com/news/mlb-bat-speed-l…
🦇🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Giancarlo Stanton leads the league in Statcast's new Average Bat Speed metric! 💥
ALT Statcast Bat Tracking Average bat speed (MPH) Giancarlo Stanton 80.6 Oneil Cruz 77.7 Kyle Schwarber 77.0 Matt Chapman 76.9 Ronald Acuña Jr. 76.7 Christopher Morel 76.7 Aaron Judge 76.5 Jo Adell 76.3 Julio Rodríguez 76.2 Juan Soto 76.1 Pictured: A cutout of Giancarlo Stanton swinging a bat and a photo of Giancarlo Stanton standing with his left hand in the air. He is wearing a white pinstripe New York Yankees jersey.
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"Nobody cares how fast you can throw if you can't throw it in the strike zone."
-- Everybody who watches baseball
Same applies for the bat speed: you really need to know how much you can square up the ball. Which we also provide.
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fastest avg bat speed, 2024:
Giancarlo Stanton: 80.6 mph
Oneil Cruz: 77.7 mph
Kyle Schwarber: 77.0 mph
Matt Chapman: 76.9 mph
Ronald Acuña Jr.: 76.7 mph
Christopher Morel: 76.7 mph
Aaron Judge: 76.5 mph
Jo Adell: 76.3 mph
Julio Rodríguez: 76.2 mph
Juan Soto: 76.1 mph
MLB avg: 72 mph
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highest fast-swing rate, 2024:
Giancarlo Stanton: 98.0%
Kyle Schwarber: 73.9%
Oneil Cruz: 73.5%
Ronald Acuña Jr.: 71.5%
Christopher Morel: 71.0%
Aaron Judge: 69.0%
Juan Soto: 66.0%
fast swing = 75+ mph
WHY WE CARE - MLB results on fast swings: .310 BA, .607 SLG, 52.5% hard-hit rate
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highest % of swings that are squared-up, 2024:
Luis Arraez: 43.5%
Nolan Schanuel: 40.9%
Nicky Lopez: 39.3%
Juan Soto: 39.2%
Mookie Betts: 39.0%
Jung Hoo Lee: 37.1%
Steven Kwan: 37.1%
squared up: reached at least 80% of possible exit velocity based on bat speed & pitch speed
WHY WE CARE - MLB results on squared-up swings: .367 BA, .644 SLG, 56.9% hard-hit rate
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Big huge props to @abijith_m9 on his first big release, and @danabennett and @tangotiger and @JasonBernard_ and @_dadler and @AlexFast8 and the whole gang for the work on this.
Go, have fun: baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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Is it cool to know how much more velo there is at the big league level? I think so.
--> mlb.com/news/minor-league-st…
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Do you just want to see what kind of pitches Ricky Tiedemann threw at A or AAA last year? You can do that.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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Is it interesting that the Chicago Cubs are dead last in MLB in rate of 4sm/sinker thrown 95MPH+ ... and the Iowa Cubs are *first* in AAA? I think so.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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So Minor League hard-hit leaders, among tracked batted balls?
Here --> bit.ly/4acPk8A
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(On those pitch types: If you followed live data last summer and found the automated results janky, yes, they were. A ton of work has been put into cleaning them up, thanks @alexfast8. Hit us up or @MLBPitchClass with any questions on that.)
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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So if you want to see things like "hey, did the Yankees AAA team throw the highest rate of their sliders with more than 12 inches of break," hoo boy yes they did
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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Minor League Statcast search is complete for AAA/2023, partial AAA/2022, and Statcast-enabled Single-A from 2021-23. It's not 100% of everything, but it is nearly 2 million pitches, and that's a lot.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
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A new treat! At Baseball Savant.
Minor League Statcast search is live.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc…
I wrote a lot about comparing MLB and MiLB performance levels here:
--> mlb.com/news/minor-league-st…
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busy day!!
you can get your Spring Breakout Statcast fix here:
atmlb.com/4ab0YRm
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You can see which of today's Spring Breakout games will be played in Statcast parks here:
baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamef…
Many will!
Just remember so many of these P are brand new to the system, so if real-time pitch tagging is iffy, know it'll be cleaned up
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This is great because you can see Moniak briefly disappear here as he flopped into (and then out of) the stands
⚾Alex Kirilloff! HR (3)
5/21/23 @ LAA, ⬆️ 8th
vs LHP Matt Moore
100.5 MPH / 35° / 348 ft to LF
Off a 95.3 MPH four-seam fb
▶️It's a home run in 22/30 parks.◀️
See this play in Gameday: mlb.com/gameday/twins-vs-ang…