Last week, we dove in to exit velocity for pitchers to see if we could reach any conclusions about what it means. While there was a lot of interesting data, the results didn’t yield much. There simply wasn’t much to connect a pitcher’s overall exit velocity to their performance on the mound.
In the comments, fellow Redleg Nation columnist Doug Gray made an interesting point about how batting average is directly related to exit velocity; that is, averages go up the harder the ball is hit, which makes plenty of sense. He also pointed out that it may be more prudent to look at exit velocity when broken down by pitch.