That step unlocked a new age of baseball fandom, and Statcast builds upon that innovation by measuring everything the previous system did, along with a great deal more. Statcast was installed in all ...

While baseball has existed for more than 100 years, there are still frequent changes in the way the game is played on the field, for better or for worse. As technology has rapidly advanced through the ...

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s daily MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Statcast hits double digits. It somehow feels too long and too short ...

The box score says one thing. Exit velocity, barrel rate and xwOBA say something else entirely about several of MLB’s biggest breakouts. Early Statcast data is separating real MLB breakout performers ...

Confusion, disappointment, and finally a begrudging acceptance. Those are the emotions the majority of New York Yankees fans have experienced in the time from when the club extended Trent Grisham the ...

Who’s hitting the ball hardest? Who’s throwing the fastest? Let’s use MLB’s advanced metrics to see which players are standing out a month into the season. While the old adage goes that you shouldn’t ...

There are still plenty of spring training games to be played, and not all games are played in parks equipped with MLB Statcast tracking tech, but there have been several notable performances by ...

In the midst of a wild 8-6 Cubs loss to Detroit on Monday, Pete Crow-Armstrong did something that he’s done so often that it ...

The Philadelphia Phillies have turned their franchise around in the last few years. They made the postseason for the first time in a while during the 2022 season and made the postseason year after ...

The first two months of an MLB season produce two kinds of performers: players whose numbers reflect something real, and players whose numbers reflect something temporary. The box score does not tell ...