For the 2024 season, Major League Baseball (MLB) upgraded the Statcast cameras in each stadium so that path, extension, and velocity data can be captured for every swing. This data is now available in the Statcast portal, and it’s so cool that I couldn’t help but mess around with it!
To be honest, I haven’t had the time to put together a really thoughtful analysis of the data and how it interacts with batted ball metrics, pitch locations, game situations, etc. - but I have started visualizing the bat tracking data at an individual and team level, and found that it’s still pretty cool as a standalone dataset!
As such, I wanted to share the exploration I’ve done thus far, and pay my respects to swing god Giancarlo Stanton). Take a look at the charts below!
Positional Data
Individual Data
Team Data
