If as the old saying goes speed kills, then the Milwaukee Brewers’ Keon Broxton is one of the most deadly players in Major League Baseball.
On Tuesday, Statcast unveiled the Sprint Speed of MLB players, which measures “feet per second in a player’s fastest one-second window.” There’s a lot more detail on how the stat is measured here, but it revolves around a player using maximum speed around the bases.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the five-fastest players in MLB according to this measurement are center fielders.
Cincinnati’s Billy Hamilton tops the list at 30.1 feet/second — Statcast describes a rate of 30 ft/sec as elite; average is 27.