The hardworking team that manages Baseball Savant is always working to improve the site!
Here's a thread of recent improvements that have been rolled out! 🧵
Did you know Savant had custom leaderboards that you can create your own leaderboards with lots of different columns and easily create several charts & regressions. You can copy/paste/bookmark the url and it'll save that leaderboard
We've updated the Statcast Search to allow custom columns in the search results using the "Included Stats" button... We've also made updates to the graphs. Here's a quick search example showing some of the updates
The leaderboards on Savant have been updated to be much more mobile friendly. You can now swipe to scroll and the player name will stay in view. Here's a quick video demonstrating the new feature:
Ever wonder which players are similar to others? This handy application lets you compare players visually. Fun fact, the 2 closest pitchers in similarity to deGrom are his teammates Syndergaard and Wheeler
New data available from MLB:
A daily MLB updated dashboard showing the average drag coefficient of four-seam fastballs, dating back to 2016.
See more at:
Due to popular demand the default view of our Spin Direction Leaderboards have been defaulted to Pitcher Perspective and we added a toggle to flip between Batter and Pitcher perspective. Thanks for all the feedback!
Pro tip: On the Statcast Search page if you click the labels it doesn't auto close the selection box. Clicking the checkbox the selection box is auto-closed.
Search: An attempt to simplify pitch types. Curveballs are now grouped together by default
You can still access the more detailed view by clicking 'show more types'
Looking for Probable Pitcher matchups with
@statcast
stats... Check the Probable Pitchers page from the top menu. Clicking a matchup will give you individual breakdowns for each player
Search: colorful pitch logos + zone icons for the detailed pitch view/drawer -- when you expand on a result
Here's the list of most 440+ ft HR in '22, and what happens when we expand on a name!
Baseball Savant now has
@statcast
Game Previews. You can check them out by clicking the schedule at the top of any page before a game starts. Here's a link to an example preview
On player pages under the game logs you can lookup videos for defensive plays for any player. Pull up a player, click "Game Logs" -> "Statcast" and Switch Batting to Fielding. Direct link to Arenado:
Due to the late ending of last night's LAD/SF game, it was not included in today's Baseball Savant update and is not reflected in today's data. It will be restored with Tuesday morning's regular update.
Ever want to know what a typical outcome for an Exit Velocity & Launch Angle combination? Use this handy tool to figure it out. Here's a breakdown of balls hit 100 MPH at 30 degree launch angle 👇
Baseball Savant has a player comparison tool that easily allows you to compare players based on different metrics. Here's a link to Javier Baez and Mookie Betts swing & miss and a quick video demo to show it in action.
New metric🚨! At Baseball Savant. Something we've been thinking about forever. Let's give actual credit to C for the SB situations they're put in. What's next beyond simple CS%? We've got Caught Stealing Above avg.
Read a lot more about it here:
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We noticed some feedback about year order on our player page tables going in descending order. We've updated all the tables to ascending unless otherwise noted! Thanks for the feedback.
2019 player positioning and shift data is available. You can look it up here, use the drop-down at the top of the page to navigate the different positioning views
ICYMI yesterday: you can now search on pitch movement numbers at Baseball Savant. Short form, long form, in, out, whatever you like.
So here's batters in 2022-23 who have had to face the most 97MPH+ pitches that moved at least 10 inches away from them
Good morning, due to an import issue the Angels/White Sox game from Weds, 6/29 didn't make it into today's update. It will be included in tomorrow's update. Sorry for the inconvenience.