Whenever Statcast introduces something new for the public domain, there is usually a rush to see how it affects the team one follows. It’s cool to look at the leaderboards to see how baseball is quantifying how much better the best players in the game, but in the end, we’re looking at players in our region.
Statcast has now given us ways to see how good of baserunners the players are. We’ve relied on things like sprint speed, stolen bases and assumed stats from Fangraphs to tell us who the best are, but thanks to new released (re: newly public) data, it’s more easily quantifiable.