Statcast has bat tracking now! 

MLB will ask a guy to relay brand new in depth statistical concepts to fans but won't credential him for Winter meetings

I just found out statcast has bat tracking now

Statcast is really so advanced these days it's now tracking a bunch of flying mammals, the future of baseball is officially here

All I'm getting out of this video in the first couple minutes is that Stanton is a true freak.

Uploading 5 mins before my lunch break at work. A true hero

Ayyyy main channel upload

Maybe that young guy Juan Soto is good at baseball

Bat tracking call that echolocation

The little high school physics teacher inside all of us wants to ask if bat size would have any significant impact on a player like Corbin Carroll, who has a high bat speed, but not necessarily the reputation or results of the guys next to him in the leaderboard. Couldn’t find any listed bat weight or anything online, and I know variations in bat weight are usually +- 30% max on a major leaguer’s bat, but in a game where minor tweaks are so important, I feel like something that small could have a bigger impact than one would think. Also, I think the term sword comes from the Happy Madison film “Benchwarmers,” (…I know), where Rob Scheider (…I know)’s character criticizes David Spade (…I know)’s character’s swing, yelling “It’s not a sword!” (… I know)

Loving that they track Swords. Thats hilarious to me.

Harder, better, faster, stronger made me smile.

Harold Ramirez is a great example of someone who shortens his swing considerably in 2 strike counts, something that’s even been discussed a lot on Tampa bay broadcasts. Cool to see the data back this up and for Bailey to point it out!

Bailey, tired: I don't really see the value of the swords stat. Me, wired: Scouting dudes for my secret samurai clan.

Awesome video Bailey, I love this type of info. With all baseball stats, I wonder how big of a sample size is needed for it to "normalize". Second, I think this does not account for the weight of the players bats. E.g. Matt Olson probably swings a heavier batt than a small guy like Corbin Carrol, and thus may have higher exit velo despite a lower bat speed. Just a thought. Keep up the good work!

I just saw that article on Baseball Savant like 10 minutes ago and here you are with a video already

Morel is actually in the top 15-20 of a bunch of statcast measurements. If he was one of the better hitters in the league in a couple years I wouldn't be surprised. Do I think that will actually happen? Idk but as a Cubs fan I'll enjoy watching him develop more.

Oh boy! The main channel! Thats how you know it's serious!

Love a new main channel upload during my school lunch break

Now that we can track the bat and the ball, I want to know some of the biggest “whiffs”, which would be the distance a swing missed the ball. What player has the highest average whiff distance? What about the lowest?

Now I just wish we could see historical bat speed data. Imagine how Adam Dunn's bat speed data stacks up to that of Stanton

I wonder if there might be a thing where you can calculate smash factor similar to a golf swing. If there’s a consistent number, it might be possible to retroactively estimate a batters swing speed based on exit velocity.😊

Awesome vid, thank you.

🔥🔥🔥 Thanks for this.

I’ve never been so early to a main channel vid. Truly honored

didn’t know i needed this video till i saw it

To account for variation in the weight and length of bats, we could use bat momentum and centripetal bat force. Bat momentum = bat mass x bat speed. Centripetal bat force = bat mass x bat velocity^2 / distance from the bat mass centre and the theoretical centre of the circle defined by the bat curve.

Why does the fast swing rate use a fixed threshold? What if a slow bat speed hitter just cant reach that speed but still tries to swing hard sometimes?

Why you spending your time uploading these videos Foolish? The A's need you!

Luis Arraez at the bottom is not surprising given that he probably waits the longest among all hitters to get the most contact possible.

Looks like we're going to have some new Foolish videos coming out :)

Finally another main channel upload

I still am curious of bat mass/hitter mass and the correlation of exit velocity off the same swing speed. Also would really love to see attack angles of each hitter (bat path in regards to pitching plane) for example KeBryan Hayes consistently slamming the ball into the dirt because of his bat path

That's a great hat, Bailey. Shouldn't go unnoticed.

Id like to see a correction factor for bat MOI/weight. Guys might swing the bat faster than Judge but most of them arent swinging 35/33 bats.

Love the Daft Punk reference thank you Bailey

For looking for impressive players with two factors (like when you looked for high fast swing rate compared to average bat speed), the graph is really easier to instantly pick out those players compared to the chart (it will just be all the people along the top slope of the graph).

This is a great feature! One question.. how many cats and or dogs sat on your hat?

what are compitive swings

one thign that needs to be said is bat speed doesnt correlate to production, but it can correlate to slugging percentage. guys like Steven Kwan and Luis Arraez are very productive hitters, but dont have high bat speed because they hit for batting average. that is productive, and OPS can be similar to guys who hit for slugging percentage and have high bat speed with equal production

This is all fine and good, but who do I sign that’s a free agent in may who will save my season?

hell yeah just in time for my 15 minute on the clock work shit

i feel like swords drawn (which is a great way to put it) might be more fun if pitchers had that data tracked

someone explain mookie's well below bat speed inverse correlated with his overall slugging.

This will change everything

Me looking at the scatterplot: "Man who's the weirdo living off by themselves in the top right. That player must either be very good or very bad" Bailey: "Look over here at Juan Soto who's off by himself in the top right. That's good" Me: "I always knew my large adult time traveling son was special"

I feel like exit velo does this but better, especially cause guys mash balls without that elite bat speed. I do think it’s intriguing for pitchers, guys who are making hitters swing slower and switching up timing

Dan Haren called out!

I think it’s important to note bat size as well. To accelerate a bat that’s 36 oz. Is way different than something that’s 30 oz

I think a maximum bat speed leaderboard might be useful

Where's the info for bat weight and length?

Interesting stats. I think this will be most useful to track when a hitter is over the hill as I assume their bat speed will take a dive

i feel like bat speed will be better than exit veloxity for predicting since its on a per (competitive)swing rate and not bip rate

Im really impressed to see Isaac Paredes sitting at 67.5mph with the 13th lowest bat speed in the league. Comparing him to the guys around him he almost seems to be an anomaly being a 30+ home run guy while in the company of guys like Jeff Mcneil, IKF, Verdugo when talking bat speed

Does the length of the bat affect how bat speed is measured?

Juan Soto having that bat speed with a higher contact % than arraez is insane

Does this track in the minor leagues at all? I would be interested in knowing Junior Caminero’s bat speed considering his 90th pct exit velo’s were like top 5 in all of baseball last season, and people have described him as having freak bat speed.

I learned something today. That Bailey, known 90s Braves slugger and legend, didn't have to swing more than 45 mph to get to his prodigious power.

Wonder what Clint Frazier’s was

Pretty interesting how Harper's upward violent swing is actually not that high above average. Wonder how much faster it was in his prime.

Swords are gonna be cool as a pitcher stat. Not really helpful to say anything about the hitter but would love to line it up to see the pitchers that induce the most swords

Would be cool if they included the weight of the bat each player uses as well

xSwords/9+ is the new meta stat. Or possibly a gamer handle from the early '00s.

This definitely needs to be broken down into situations batspeed. Kinda like with pitchers, you know, not every pitch is the same speed. Hitters have different styles of swings they may use depending on what they are trying to do. I'm assuming that if we looked at the batspeed on every at bat and made a scatter plot, we'd see contextual groupings. Ie., they prolly swing much harder on 3-0 than on 0-2 for example.

Wake up the goat just dropped

whats really interesting to me is that there are some guys at the bottom of the list that are hitting for power. Like Paredes, or even Turner, MAYBE even Tyler Nevin, if you wanted to go there. Nevin hits the ball harder than most players, but is still at the bottom of the list. Interesting.

Lol, Giancarlo swings on average 5mph faster than Ohtani, what a beast.

Shwarber with 11 swords is tremendous

7:30 ANDY PAGES SPOTTING!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

let’s start the wilyer abreu ROY discussion

Hearing that Statcast now has bat tracking!

Please can we get a Lamonte Wade Jr video

Despite having the slowest bat speed, Luis Arraez has a 47.2 squared up contact %. Juan Soto is 11th place and has a 48.4 squared up contact %.

Thanks for showing me that despite how good Ohtani is. Soto is quite literally the most efficient and best bat in baseball.

The angels Jo Adell who is breaking out at the perfect time is #10 currently in average bat speed.

Hey Bailey, did you hear they have bat tracking stats on savant now? They’re even tracking swords!

I think Luis Arraez being 2 mph slower than the second slowest is really interesting. The man is quite literally hitting by just turning the barrel in the zone, those videos of him in the cage are insane.

Bailey will find a way to tie William Contreras' bat speed to the Brewer's catching lab

Nice Melonheads hat

I only make uncompetitive swings

that javy baez swing length at 6' tall feels so long

I feel like a pattern will emerge with swords eventually but the sample is too small after 30ish games

Considering his exit velocity feats im shocked Shohei isnt higher

Why did you have to do Gavin Sheets like that.

Vladi would probably be higher if his season wasn't this abnormally bad. As a cubs fan, I am not at all surprised by Morel. He is a great cleanup hitter and still very underrated

wake n jake sent me here tomorrow (what)

what if I can't see this video right now?

Javy Baez having the longest swing length by far despite only being 6 feet tall is, well, not at all surprising.

this is me when statcast has bat tracking now

I don't know how accurate this is. I think it's more about torque. Bat speed isn't as important

Awesome data but NGL, I'm kinda disappointed there's no easy way (yet) to see max swing speed, and for the heck of it, lowest bat speed.

no way

So basically Wyatt Langford with his short swing, high bat velo, and low chase and whiff rates and 98th percentile sprint speed means he's going to be early 90s Barry Bonds in a few years.

Thoughts on Josh Rojas (arguably the best hitter on the Mariners so far this season) being at the bottom of the bat speed charts?

Damn, I got here early by accident😂 Nice stuff tho

Woah

If you had to live the rest of your life with either baseball but no statistics or statistics but no baseball, which would you pick?

Bat speed and exit velocity have to be combined with each other when talking about breakouts.

She statcast on my bat until I uh umm idk

Why does it not surprise me that the leader in swords is an Angels player?

Nerds rejoice