Skenes' red-hot radar readings highlight wild week of stats
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (May 10-16).
Welcome to The Show: Paul Skenes made his MLB debut on Saturday with his velocity on display. His first MLB batter was a 100.9 mph strikeout, tying Gerrit Cole in the 2013 NLDS Game...
3 takeaways about Skenes' stuff from his debut
If Paul Skenes' big league debut last weekend was any indication -- the seven strikeouts in four innings, the triple-digit heat, the wipeout secondary pitches -- there are some dominant games in the tank for baseball's top pitching prospect.
The Pirates' 21-year-old right-hander makes start No. 2 on Friday at...
Paul Skenes
This Cub has some of MLB’s best bat speed
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Christopher Morel
The most extreme bullpen rebound of 2024
The A’s bullpen had no margin for error. But that turned out to be just fine.
On April 28 at Camden Yards, Oakland starter Paul Blackburn departed after allowing six runs in four innings. With the A’s down 6-4 to the high-powered Orioles, it was up to Oakland’s relief corps...
Mason Miller
Lucas Erceg
The new Statcast metric that Luis Arraez dominates
Padres infielder Luis Arraez comes in last – last! – in bat speed of 216 qualified hitters on Statcast’s new bat-tracking data leaderboard, because he swings the slowest stick of anyone in the land. At just 62.4 mph, he’s 10 mph below the Major League average, and nearly 20 mph...
Luis Arraez
5 fun facts about Ohtani's top-tier bat speed
The best baseball player in the world has great bat speed. Just one more way Shohei Ohtani stands out.
Ohtani having top-tier bat speed is one of the most predictable things about Statcast's new bat tracking leaderboard. But this is the first time we've ever been able to look at...
Shohei Ohtani
How Yanks' Big 3 dominate the bat speed leaderboard
There's one Big Three on Statcast's new bat tracking leaderboard, and it's the big three Bronx Bombers: Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.
Stanton, Judge and Soto all have elite bat speed. In that respect, they're the same. They're the only trio of teammates in MLB's top 10 for...
Giancarlo Stanton
Aaron Judge
Juan Soto
Who takes the hardest swings on each MLB team?
The Statcast era of baseball research has reached another milestone: bat speed is live on Baseball Savant. You can check out this page for more thorough details on what bat speed entails and how it’s calculated. But in the meantime, we’re kicking things off by breaking down the best of...
This budding superstar has MLB's most dangerous swing
Two winters ago, it seemed like a nifty piece of work for the Brewers to sneak into the Sean Murphy-from-Oakland-to-Atlanta deal, turning it into a three-team trade. It netted them catcher William Contreras and reliever Joel Payamps (plus prospect Justin Yeager) at the cost of only a speedy but light-hitting...
William Contreras
Everything to know about Statcast's new bat-tracking data
“This is a quick, strong game,” said legendary hitting scientist Ted Williams in a 1986 conversation with Sports Illustrated. “I want to get the bat there as quickly as I can.” Ten years later, future Hall of Fame slugger Jeff Bagwell echoed the same point to the same magazine. “Guys...