There are infinite ways to get your bat to the baseball. For the hundreds of Major League hitters, there are hundreds of ...

when Baseball Savant added more depth to swing data with swing path data. Not only can fans learn about how hard a hitter can swing the bat, but now they can see the plane on which they do that.

Sometimes, in what’s a near-endless proliferation of advanced metrics and tools across baseball, it feels like it’s all ...

The first check-swing challenge in the history of professional baseball took place at the Arizona ... showed Gilbert did not break the 45-degree plane. “Guys like it, we’ll see,” Gilbert ...

Jim Evans has dedicated his entire professional life to developing an encyclopedic knowledge of the most arcane details of the baseball rulebook. He worked as a major-league umpire for close to ...