Yesterday, I pulled together linear weighted batted ball data for the Rays and ranked their place in baseball.
In that piece, Longoria surprised me by showing up among the top-100 hitters in baseball for exit velocity + launch angle, an analysis put together by Baseball Prospectus.
Watching the games, I wouldn't be terribly convinced that Longo has hit the ball all that hard, so I took a look. But first, for context, here's how hard Longo hit the ball in 2015, by week:
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Now, here's how he's done in 2016:
