Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025This is a fun one. HR on pitches outside the zone: Cal Raleigh: 10 (leads MLB) Aaron Judge: 0 0112
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Totally missed this! Thanks so much, @benclemens.bsky.social. Saw your shoutout in the FG piece, too. Thanks so much for doing that. 110
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Last night, George Kirby struck out Jackson Holliday on an absolutely fantastic slider down and in. Before that, he threw a splitter down and away that ran outside the zone (Holliday fouled it off). Here are those pitches overlaid. 180
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 14/05/2025SLG allowed against 7, 8, 9 hitters. 21. LAD: .377 22. ATH: .381 23. PHI: .384 24. ARI: .386 25. TB: .389 26. CHW: .394 27. PIT: .406 28. COL: .419 29. WAS: .454 30. BAL: .457 192
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Pitchers most negatively impacted by defense to begin the year (OAA): 1. Fried: -7 2. T Williams: -6 3. Verlander: -4 4. Spence: -4 5. Paddack: -4 6. Kremer: -4 7. B Keller: -4 8. Houck: -4 9. Eisert: -4 10. Clase: -4 11. Cease: -4 120
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Really nice start from Sugano: 17 total whiffs - most for an Oriole starter this year 9 splitter whiffs - tied for 2nd most by an SP so far this year Here are all 8 Ks 1275
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This Sugano splitter was SO SO nasty. 29 inches of drop. 13 inches of horizontal. Just a gorgeous pitch. 0130
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025SLG allowed w/ 2 strikes 30. BAL: .320 29. MIA: .314 28. CLE: .307 27. CHC: .301 26. ARI: .300 25. COL: .300 24. ATL: .295 23. MIL: .289 22. STL: .285 21. WSH: .281 061
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025@enosarris.bsky.social why do you think this is: Health? Less of an instance on elevated heat? Bigger focus on approach angle? 110
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Something interesting I just noticed. We only have 5 years of public arm angle data but thru this early sample size... Average Arm Angle is at it's lowest point in the past five seasons. 2025: 37.2° 2024: 38.1° 2023: 38.8° 240
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Top pitches by SLG (min 100 thrown): 1. Justin Sterner's FF: .056 2. H Brown's FF: .056 3. Rasmussen's FC: .074 4. Holmes' SL: .077 5. Gilbert's FS: .094 6. T Williams' Sw: .095 7. Eovaldi's CU: .095 8. F Cruz's SL: .107 9. Canning's FF: .111 10. Sasaki's FS: .118 010
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025SL - slider FS - splitter FF - four-seam CU - curveball 000
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Baseballs top swing-and-miss pitches (min 100 thrown): 1. Greene's SL: 29.5% 2. Yamamoto's FS: 28.2 3. Meyer's SL: 23.0 4. Eovaldi's FS: 22.7 5. Ben Brown's CU: 22.0 6. Woo's FF: 20.6 7. Imanaga's FS: 20.5 8. Sale's SL: 20.5 9. Rodón's SL: 20.0 10. Ryan Gusto's FF: 19.6 150
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Only one pitch in baseball has been thrown over 100 times and is yet to give up a hit. Hunter Greene's slider. 040
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Some changes Spencer Torkelson has made: - Stands MUCH further back in the box (3rd greatest depth among right handed hitters) - Slowed his swing down - Drastically opened up his stance - Cut down his swing and miss on breaking pitches (small sample) 0232
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Interesting thing I noticed re Heston Kjerstad: 55% of his batted balls have been to the opposite field. That's the 2nd highest rate in baseball right now. 040
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Small sample fun. Qualified BABIP leaders: 1. Will Smith: .625 2. George Springer: .588 3. Mike Yastrzemski: .500 4. Wilyer Abreu: .500 5. Spencer Torkelson: .474 6. Nathaniel Lowe: .467 7. Jose Altuve: .462 8. Ramón Urías: .455 9. Riley Greene: .455 10. Sal Frelick: .452 000
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 30/03/2025HR Totals: LAD (12) + NYY (11) + BAL (10) = 33 COL + NYM + HOU + MIA + TBR + MIN + LAA + STL + PIT + MIL + CIN + TOR + SEA + KCR + CLE + SF + SD + CHC = 31 094
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Hilarious that this is what the dodgers offense is doing WITHOUT Betts and Freeman 020
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Lets look at league average SLG and wOBA on four-seamers by how much induced vertical break they get: > 20" - .357 / .287 19" - 20" - .402 / .316 18" - 19" - .410 / .325 < 18" - .430 / .335 030
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Tomorrow is Saturday AND the Orioles game is on TV AND Povich is going up against Skenes?!?media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in front of a body of water .ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in front of a body of water . 280
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Look at the swing Ogasawara just got out of Soto on his 69 mph CB. 2142
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Sandy Alcantara dots the corner with an 100 mph FB for the strikeout (the ball call was overturned via ABS) 050
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Think I came up with my first ever @theonion.com headline: "Sticky substance controversy continues to rock competitive dreideling circuit" 050
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025No Statcast for this game but safe to say Jorge Soler hit this ball 750 feet? 160
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Singer has now struck out 4 Dodgers. 3 on breaking pitches. 6 whiffs total. 020
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025With the news about Manaea / Montas, here are the remaining SP FA as ranked by projected WAR: Kyle Gibson Lance Lynn Jose Quintana Spencer Turnbull Patrick Corbin Anthony DeSclafani Alex Wood Jordan Lyles Marco Gonzales Noah Syndergaard José Urquidy José Ureña 030
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Jac Caglianone just smoked a ball 115.4 mph. That would be in last years top 100 for hardest hit balls and would put him in the top 30 of max exit velo player rankings. 181
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Just hurt my neck watching Sandy Alcantara’s draft stock shoot upwards. 1121
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Kenta Maeda showing some nice velo gains in his first spring appearance 1191
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Westburg picking up right where he left off by starting his spring w/ a 2-strike hit 070
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Baseball Savant has added "2025" to the search. Baseball season has officially begun. 2131
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Should be noted this could largely be velo dependent, too. Down 3 ticks today just on his curve. 020
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Yoshinobu Yamamoto only threw 5 curves in that outing but he averaged 66" of drop; 5" more than last year. That pitch was already top 25 in terms of drop and if (HUGE if) that maintains it'll put him in top 10 territory. Again: 5 pitches but something fun to track over ST. 1153
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Some interesting notes on velo: League SLG against FF in '24 was .424. 2nd lowest in recorded history, lowest since 2014. This is NOT just bc of velo: SLG against FB b/w 93-94: .436. Lowest SLG since 2014. SLG against FB b/w 94-95: .404 last year. Lowest SLG since 2014. 291
Reposted by Alex FastNick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025live talking about my new kaggle competition using the arm angle data from MLB's Baseball Savant! here's a link to the comp www.kaggle.com/competitions...kaggle.comPredict strikeouts with new MLB arm angle dataUsing MLB data from Baseball Savant to predict strikeouts 2178
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 19/02/2025We're less than 24 hours away from watching a baseball game with Statcast data. 0183
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Guardians got a good one in John Means. Best of luck to him and his family. 090
Alex Fast @alexfast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Maybe my blinders are on but I feel like we may have seen more RP moves from the org if they had this level of concern. The surgeries are a completely valid concern and maybe I'm wrong but he had the literal best stuff in baseball in '23. Even with a slight regression he's elite. 120
