How We're Using Statcast's New Bat Tracking & Bat Speed Leaderboards
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Paul Skenes' MLB debut against the Cubs before digging into ways they are utilizing the new bat tracking and bat speed leaderboards from Statcast, including a few players to consider targeting via trade.
Rundown
1:45 Takeaways From Paul Skenes' Debut & Unexpected Comp
13:39 New Bat Tracking & Bat Speed Leaderboards from Statcast!
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/bat-tracking
19:27 How Should We Apply Bat Speed Information?
25:47 'Squared Up' vs. 'Blasts'
27:59 Players to Target
40:14 A Tool to Use for 'Buy High' Players?
44:44 Learning From Good Players Without 'Ideal' Swing Speed & Length
52:11 Robert Gasser's Debut & Where the Money Went
1:04:13 Other Bids & Frequently Dropped Players
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| 0:36.3 | Thank you. Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, May 13th. |
| 0:38.3 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceros, here with you. A fun day. We have new tools to discuss. |
| 0:41.3 | Statcast releasing some bat speed and bat tracking, which is really exciting. |
| 0:46.3 | We'll dig into how we might use that now that we have some new information at our disposal. |
| 0:51.3 | Of course, we had the debut of Paul Skeens over the weekend, so we'll have a few |
| 0:54.9 | takeaways from that, and we'll do what we usually do on Mondays. |
| 0:58.8 | We'll dig into some players that were frequently added and dropped over the weekend. |
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