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Introducing a new stat to evaluate hitters

Baseball will never be the same.

This was the mantra uttered by Major League Baseball when it unveiled Statcast to the general public.

Integrating both a camera-based tracking system and doppler radar technology, Statcast has unlocked today's golden age of information. As MLB.com's Paul Casella put it, "The better question...may very well have been what can't Statcast measure?"

Emma Baccellieri wrote a fantastic piece at Deadspin entitled Major League Baseball's Statcast Can Break Sabermetrics, which dives into the past, present, and future of baseball information as raw Statcast data is interwoven with the sabermetrics boom of the early 21st century.