Baseball Savant now tracks bat speed. How will hitters be affected as they train to increase swing velocity, and do faster swings help?
Track it. Vet it. Scout it. Get it. That’s been the playbook when it comes to new publicly tracked statistics in the past — they’ve moved from fancy new numbers to accepted metrics and then scouting and player development goals over time. Now that MLB ’s website has unveiled a new suite of bat tracking numbers including, among others, bat speed and swing length, we are left to wonder whether the past will repeat itself.
Perform estimated that, if we removed 6 feet from every home run last year, there would have been 365 fewer homers. Even if we look at this year’s small-sample outputs, you can see how bat speed correlates with power. Hitters are aware of this relationship. “It’s absolutely important,” designated hitter said. “In a vacuum, all else the same, swinging faster is never going to be a bad thing. Just like throwing harder is going to be better.
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