The on-again, off-again relationship between the Olympics and baseball is heading toward another reconciliation in 2028.
Ohtani is a baseball savant doing what has never been seen in Major League Baseball history. The last player to both pitch and hit at an elite level was Babe Ruth, a century ago. But the Bambino stopped pitching relatively early in his career to concentrate on hitting. And no one ever c...
Courtesy of Baseball Savant, here are the pitchers with the fastest average fastball velocity this year, with data collected through the first month of the season. Jhoan Duran, Minnesota Twins –101.8 mph average Jordan Hicks, Toronto Blue Jays– 100.3 mph average Felix Bautista, Baltimore Orioles...
“I can point my finger in multiple directions,” Dunning said Saturday during a Rangers winter caravan stop at Rough Riders Field, “but I don’t know if I can exactly pinpoint, ‘Hey, this is what happened.’” Related:Rangers RHP Dane Dunning will ...
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That Phillies-Dodgers game was a decent candidate actually, since Philadelphia was down 4-1 in the fifth inning. But on Sunday, the Colorado Rockies scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth to beat Atlanta 9-8. The Braves had a 99.5% win probabilitya...
Baseball Savant began publishing swing dataduring the 2024 season. As such, we now have access to impactful metrics such as swing speed, swing length, and the solidity of contact for the second half of 2023 and all of last season, right at our fingert...
Based on the award-winning novel by Rusty Whitener, Season of Miracles follows the Robins, an underdog Little League team through their 1974 season with newcomer and autistic baseball savant, Rafer. Team leader Zack takes Rafer under his wing despite taunting from their rivals, the Hawks. The ...
Baseball Savant Six of the seven batted balls from previous seasons fitting our criteria resulted in home runs -- compared to just three of the balls hit in 2022. Every ball hit that falls within our parameters this season traveled significantly fewer total feet than its counterpart f...
but Rodriguez right now isn't even a consistent threat to get on base. His walk rate is in the 11th percentile according to Baseball Savant. His strikeout percentile is near 30 percent, which is in the bottom 15 percent. The combination of high strikeout and low-walk...