The Rockies’ 2021 exit velocity leaderboard

I was shuffling through Baseball Savant looking for something to write about in this week’s Rockpile and folks, I found something. Did you know that Rockies hitters managed a total of 40 batted balls hit at 110 MPH or higher in 2021? Let’s take a look at how they were distributed by player, opponent, month, whatever. Consider this a piece about me having some fun with numbers. Here is the full leaderboard, sorted by exit velocity. If you want to see each event, click on it and Savant has a video for you. I can’t put them up here. Onto the numbers!

The Initial Charts

We said the Rockies managed 40 batted balls hit at 110 MPH or higher, and there’s the distribution. C.J. Cron by himself…