Ted Williams’s “Science of Hitting” landed in Jason Ochart’s hands in high school as a Christmas gift. The seminal tome, co-written with John Underwood and first published in 1970, shaped how Ochart ...

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 ...

Baseball Savant added bat speed measurements to its pages today. It’s yet another excellent addition to an outstanding website. It will allow a whole lot of people to study a significant aspect of ...

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 ...

Over the past two decades, the rise of technology has allowed baseball to quantify the previously unquantifiable. First, it was fastball velocity for every MLB pitch. Then it was spin rate and pitch ...