It’s been obvious for a while now — probably ever since Google stopped showing you results for line drive when you searched for Driveline — that baseball’s next analytical frontier would be taking the same biometic approach that’s been applied to pitching mechanics and applying it to hitting. What is the offensive version of spin rate and induced vertical break? What do scouts miss about hitters who seem to succeed despite a longer swing? How does someone as small as Mookie Betts become one of the game’s best power hitters?
MLB front offices have undoubtedly been asking these questions for years already.