PHOENIX -- Here’s a fascinating statistic: When the Cardinals and Cubs played the opening game of the 2015 season, the first game that Statcast recorded the location and movements of every player on the field -- along with the spin rate, velocity and movement of every pitch, plus various components of the hitter and the ball in play -- 98 percent of the known data in the history of baseball had just been documented. In one game.
You’ve seen some of this information, such as exit velocity -- the maximum speed of a ball when struck. Why did Ryan Zimmerman hit .