Hitting Analysis Has Changed Forever

Statcast just released a bunch of new advanced swing metrics, so let's walk through their roll-out, discussing everything from attack angle to contact point to vertical bat angle, all with the goal of understanding how this changes our perspective of the best hitters in MLB. My Substack can be found here: https://lancebroz.substack.com/ Swing Leaderboards can be found here: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/bat-tracking/swing-path-attack-angle Mike Petriello's piece on this swing data can be found here: https://www.mlb.com/news/new-statcast-swing-metrics-2025 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lancebroz/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lancebroz X: https://twitter.com/LanceBroz Video and images: MLB, USA Today, Associated Press, MLB.tv 0:00 We Just Got Smarter! 0:27 What Did Statcast Release? 0:43 Attack Angle 1:45 Pitch Type, Location Matter 2:42 Vertical Bat Angle (Tilt) 3:49 Swing Oddities 4:14 What Really Matters? 5:04 Why it’s Good to Be BIG 5:54 Can You Change VBA? 6:29 How to Analyze Hitters 7:09 These Are Really Pitching Stats! 8:32 Contact Point 9:18 “Let the Ball Get Deep” 10:16 Best Deep Contact Hitters 10:43 More Takeaways