“Who’s the fastest Giant?” used to be the sole purview of drunken bar debates or topics on the local cable channel’s post-game show, but thanks to modern technology and the development of MLB’s Statcast, imagination or human interaction is unnecessary! Cold, hard data can give us all the answers we need, even for something like foot speed.
Over the winter, MLB’s Statcast department devised a new way of charting foot speed and visualizing that data. If you didn’t already know, Statcast has tracked the sprint speed of every player since its inception, and recently started breaking out 90-foot sprint distances.