Statcast is Baseball’s propriety software platform that uses “state-of-the-art tracking technology” to measure the motion and velocity of every person and object on the field of play. If you’ve watched any telecast over the past few years, you’ve definitely seen a replay that incorporated its signature components: exit velocity and launch angle.
If you’ve watch any Giants game over the past decade, you’ve definitely seen a team that in no appreciable way generates much power or does anything approaching league average when it comes to things like flyballs and extra base hits.
Farhan Zaidi was hired in part to fix that problem, and while it’s still too soon to tell when or even if his efforts will yield results year after year, since the Giants have entered the second half of the schedule, they’ve done nothing but pound the ball.