As eventual champion Bryce Harper cranked baseballs over the fence in the 2018 Home Run Derby, advanced-metric stats flashed on the broadcast. Before the ball landed, viewers knew at what angle and ...

It combines what we discussed about exit velocity and launch angle. To understand this, you need to understand exit velocity ...

Long before Vladimir Guerrero and Joc Pederson were going into extras in the MLB Home Run Derby on Monday night. Before the Futures Game on Sunday. Before the Indians were playing their last home ...

MLB’s Statcast is pretty cool. Tracking technology, basically, that gathers and displays stats for aspects of the game that had previously gone unmeasured. Or at least unmeasured on a consistent and ...

Over the years, ESPN has done a number of statistics-focused Statcast alternate MLB broadcasts, but their last regular-season or playoff one was a wild card game in 2021. The idea of a Statcast ...

WASHINGTON — Baseball is a game of statistics, measured more closely and scrutinized more heavily than any other sport. But the more we understand the breakdowns of pitching and hitting figures, the ...

Major League Baseball recognizes it’s a software-defined world and as such over the last several years, it’s been moving quickly to create applications to enhance the fan experience and let them watch ...

In part one of this series we examined how all 30 major league farm systems ranked based on advanced statcast hitting data. Through rigorous analysis we move to the pitching side of things to examine ...

The advent of Major League Baseball’s Statcast tool a few years ago has provided new statistical measures that can be applied to how we evaluate player performance. We can use it to help validate the ...

MLB will use Statcast data to analyze changes in spin rates and will increase monitoring of the dugout and clubhouse spaces in an effort to reduce pitchers' use of foreign substances on baseballs, the ...

The times they are a changin’ … and so are the stats. The old process of judging baseball players and teams relied on simple counting stats (runs batted in, hits, wins) and basic rate stats (batting ...