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Baseball Savant Tips, Tricks and Site Updates

Joined March 2019
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5 years
Feel free to ask any Savant questions or let me know of any issues you might have to this account. Suggestions welcome as well. ⚾
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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! 🧵
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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
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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
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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:
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Savant has added 5 new tables to the player pages. Pitch Run Values, Swing/Take, % Rankings, Expected HRs and Year to Year Changes
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Days until @mlb is back 🎉🎉🎉
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NEW FOR 2023 ON BASEBALL SAVANT: MiLB gamefeeds for games in parks equipped with Statcast! go to + change the 'MLB' dropdown
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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
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Top 5 @statcast leaders in exit velocity, pitch velocity & spin rate yesterday.
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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:
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You can watch videos of any pitch through this player page view... You can also drill down to any zone.
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Did you know you can view any pitchers pitches in 3D? Check out the link and video below
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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!
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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.
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Fun new feature... Load Random Player. Click the search player bar and scroll to the bottom, it's a great endless time sync of players.
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Just added: Players Max Exit Velocity to indvidual player pages and a new slider for Max EV
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. @AlexFast8 has done 5 incredible and detailed YouTube tutorials on Baseball Savant... If you want to learn more about the site check them out here:
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If you're interested in looking at a pitchers release points during a live game you can do that... Here's how:
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We've simplified our Outs Above Average leaderboard to combine all players on one page... Here's a quick walk through
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Want to create a Pitch Location chart broken down by pie charts? Here's how, follow this link and video. #PiDay2019
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Batter hit spray charts have been added to the player pages by default. You can select any year the player has played by click the year.
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Happy Thursday! Most leaderboards on Baseball Savant are now updated for 2023! Enjoy!
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Pro-tip: You can click the Statcast button on any page to view a real time daily Top 5 leaderboard.
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Player pages: Spray charts now include option to filter by LHB/RHB for switch hitters. It also includes a more descriptive subtitle
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Savant is undergoing maintenance preparing for opening day... The site might be up and down today. Thanks for your patience!
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You can pull up random videos for any player on the savant player pages. Here's how
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Search: Fun, colorful logos when grouping by pitch type! Here's the most strikeouts on a single pitch type in '22
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Savant has a new app to look at players swing & take profiles... Here's how you access them from the player pages
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Savant has a fun draft tool that allows you to easily look at drafts over timespans and see which players made #MLB . Here's the last 5 years 👇
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Search: 'sort by' options are now in a categorized, easy-to-find order
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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'
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The Savant Gamefeed has added a new real time chart to break down pitch types by count. Check it out here:
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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
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Rejoice! We've finally added a flag for "Position Player Pitching" to help you better find amazing videos
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There's a known wOBA issue with the Savant stats we're resolving.
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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!
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Also, we've added xERA to the pitcher player pages.
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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
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And the same for 'metric range'
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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:
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You can click the new Statcast button highlighted in red on any page for a real time daily leaderboard for exit velocity, pitch velocity & spin rate
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We've added a percentile rankings leaderboard for @statcast metrics... You can check it out here:
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Savant is undergoing maintenance right now and might have some temporary issues while the updates are being made.
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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.
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Did you know Savant has team stats pages? Here's how you access and navigate them...
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Savant is in the process of migrating to new servers. We're working to resolve any issues that might be occurring.
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Baseball Savant has zone chart breakdowns for pretty much any type of split. Here's how you view them when on a player page.
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Savant is currently having data issues... We're working to resolve them.
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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 👇
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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.
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Nothing like looking at a position players 51 MPH pitch in 3d
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Savant is performing updates right now and might be a bit slow for a while. Should be resolved shortly.
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New metric at Baseball Savant!
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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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Savant is performing a database migration today and users might experience intermittent issues. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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We also added a link to the visual Transaction History's on the player pages... Endless amounts of time wasting.
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Did you know stats that are underlined on the Savant player pages are clickable to show charts? Here's an example
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Happy #OpeningDay !!! Here's a breakdown of all the Probable Pitchers today and how they've faired vs the other teams lineup.
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The @statcast leaderboards can be used to find videos. Here's an example. Just find a player click their row and look for a video icon
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Efficient first inning for Justin Verlander... 6 pitches.
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You can now get these pitch speed distribution charts for any pitcher on the Savant player pages under the "Statcast" tab at the bottom of the page.
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Also, here are a few of the revamped charts showing Mike Trout's home runs last season
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You can get @milb spray charts on the Savant player pages. Here's an example for Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
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Server issues have been resolved and the site should be operating normally. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Want to know which catchers had the most called strikes out of the zone last season? (Min 1000 pitches received) 👇
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We had some import issues last night and yesterdays data won't be available until later this afternoon. Apologies.
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Want to know which batters saw the highest % of pitches vs the shift last season? 👇
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We're working to smooth out the pitch classifications for this year... They should be cleaned up soon.
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2019 Pitcher arsenal leaderboards are available now 👇
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Users might be experiencing slowness on the site this morning... We're working on resolving the issue! Thanks!
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Here's a link to the custom leaderboard in the video
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We are looking into some data issues this morning. Should hopefully be resolved shortly.
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Did you know Savant has visual pitcher breakdowns? Check out this video. You can view them for any pitcher. Here's a link to Justin Verlander.
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The site should be functioning properly now... Thank you for your patience!
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Check out the Strasburg vs Syndergaard matchup in 3d with the new live 3d pitch tracker
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If you're looking for Top 5 Statcast Performers in different categories all on one page, you can view that here:
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You can also view which pitchers were helped/hurt by their defense 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.
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Thanks! For those interested here's a link to the leaderboard:
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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
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@dai_squared This might be a better source for caught stealing
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Savant is having some data import issues this morning and may be unavailable or slow until they're resolved. Apologies!
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Yesterdays data should now be available!
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@scoop_10 @darenw Not yet. Soon though.
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We've updated the look and feel on most of the Statcast Search charts... Here are a few examples:
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Savant search addition!
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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
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The default year selected on the Statcast Search is now set to 2019 💪💪💪
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@AlexFast8 this was confined to pitch types, specifically, in parameters. all set now! thanks for flagging
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@hungerdrivesme Not easily at this point but it's on the roadmap for this season.
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Savant is under going maintenance right now. We'll update when everything is resolved.
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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.
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@andoomcz Not currently
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We had some import issues last night we're currently working to resolve. Will keep everyone posted.
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@KXSFsports Videos from every play are available 2 days after the game via the search...
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@M_Caba86 Not currently... Good idea though. Will look into adding that feature!
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Want to know how to calculate highest % of opposite field home runs hit last season? 👇
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Savant is having some data issues this morning. We're working to resolve them. Thanks for your patience!
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@aaron_p_o Thanks for flagging! We'll take a look.
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