These three players have been productive to start the season, but their exit velocities and launch angles suggest their hot starts are unlikely to continue.
Statcast is the new, fun toy in baseball, and it is everywhere.
Launch angle and exit velocity maps are in our Twitter feeds, and route efficiency numbers are on our television sets. It’s good to have new ways to quantify things, and the possibilities for new avenues of analysis are exciting.
One of these new areas of analysis is redefining contact quality and, by extension, luck. Andrew Perpetua has done yeoman’s work at xStats.