When MLB.com senior club reporter Jason Beck outlined five questions facing the Tigers ahead of the offseason, he led with the most-pressing one: Where can Detroit upgrade its offense? The story of ...

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Yarbrough ranked in the 99th percentile in average exit velocity (83.2 mph) and Hard-Hit% (24.7) prior to Monday. Not bad for a guy who signed for a guaranteed $2 million at the end of spring train… ...

And even though they’re playing baseball in front of 40,000 fans now, there’s a simple mindset from backyard wiffle ball or driveway hoops that hasn’t been lost along the way.

Last year, Statcast gave us some fun new toys to play with when they dropped their Bat Speed Leaderboards. At the time, we discussed that bat speed had a close correlation to power, with every 1 mph ...

"For the average person, what it means is if you lower the swing weight of a bat, your batted ball speed goes down a little bit," Smith says. Of course, major league hitters are not average people.

In the fourth inning Tuesday night, the torpedo-toting Anthony Volpe was Exhibit A for the new tech, blasting a 94-mph cutter on the lower-inside half of the plate for his third home run.

As Leanhardt said, though, if a ball off the end of a bowling pin shape leaves the bat with an exit velocity of 70 mph compared to 71 mph for the traditional one, both are likely to result in outs.

There’s nothing in baseball that breaks through to the public like scandal, Will Leitch writes. But the Yankees’ ‘torpedo bats’ controversy doesn’t really fit the bill.