Anyone who has ever seen Billy Hamilton take off in full sprint knows that he's faster than any human being probably should be. But in the game of baseball, there are rarely - if ever - situations in which one player in full sprint is racing against another doing the same, since instead players are running against the speed of a ball that's been thrown. In the spirit of Olympic track & field, I suppose, MLB.com's Andrew Simon took a thorough look through Statcast data to determine whether Billy was, in fact, the fastest man in the game of baseball and came to this revelation:
Simon's research wasn't just isolated to one metric, either, as he broke down each and every way that Billy is, and has been faster than his peers.