Average four-seam fastball velocity is 94.2 mph this year, matching 2023 and up from 91.1 mph in 2008. There were 3,880 pitches of 100 mph or higher last year, up from 214 in 2008. Just at Triple-A this year there have been 461. “You can tell as a hitter....
Pitch Velocity How hard, in miles per hour, a pitch is thrown. Pitch Movement The movement of a pitch is defined in inches, both in raw numbers and as a measurement against average. Active Spin Statcast refers to the spin that contributes to movement as Active Spin. Spin Rate ...
Pitchers arethrowing faster, too, with the averagefour-seam fastballvelocity increasing from 92.9 MPH in 2015 to 93.5 MPH this year. There are alsomore strikeouts, with an average of 9.06 per team per game. That statistic is especially telling considering that it’s increased nearly every year...
Saberhagen went down and away with a curveball -- a perfect pitch. Gwynn swatted it to left field for a double, giving him a .401 batting average during the calendar year beginning July 1, 1993. After finishing 2-for-4, that number sat at .399. ...
We consider new baseball data from Statcast which includes launch angle, launch velocity, and hit distance for batted balls in Major League Baseball during the 2015, and 2016 seasons. Using logistic regression, we train two models on 2015 data to get the probability that a player will get a ...
Sportvision created the Statcast system, and it was introduced in the 2015 regular season for every MLB game. Statcast provides publicly available data on every pitch that is thrown and is based on both Doppler radar (for tracking balls) and video monitoring (for tracking players). Given that...