All weekend long we heard the Giants make some of the softest contact ever recorded by microphones at a baseball game, and while our brains would like to tell us our ears are infallible, the beauty of radar-tracked physics data is that it is more infallible than our brains.
Can four games’ worth of data tell us anything about the long road ahead? Probably not. But also, maybe? Were the Giants’ bats as feeble, feckless, and inoffensive as we think we heard and saw? Thankfully, we have MLB’s Statcast data to help better describe what transpired over the weekend.