MLB stars that added bat speed in 2024

Last season Statcast started bat tracking data for the first time, which made us see who had the top bat speeds in baseball. (It was not surprising that Hitter like Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Richter and Shohei Ohtani.)

But before the 2025 season begins, we want to have something to compare the 2024 bat speeds of these rackets. So we publish something extra: bat tracking of data for the second half of the 2023 season.

The bat tracking of Statcast is actually returning to the all-star break from 2023, but this 2023 data was not part of the first rollout of the ranking-es for the first time that Statcast had public bats and we had A clean season wanted to start to ensure that everything went smoothly.

And since this is the case, we take a look at some of the players who emerged from 2023 to ’24 as a bat.

Only in the event that you wonder whether this bat is real, you should know that the MLB bat speed remained consistent from 2023 to the 2024 season. The average bat speed of the Major League for 2023 (from the all-star break until the end of the season) was 71.6 miles per hour. The average bat speed of the Major League for 2024 (the full season) was 71.5 miles per hour. Basically, every important Statast bat tracking between the two seasons kept constant.

So if a festival tent player increased his bat speed from season to season, it is worth drawing it.

Now a raw bitch is not always a good thing, since it can mean that the impetus of a batsman becomes too long, and that can mean more problems with contact. Not every Ruthian hack is a good swing if you cannot connect. But there are Star players who added a bat speed for great success last season because they not only add bat speed efficient. They found out how to do it without getting any swing.

Let’s take a look at these rackets. Those who did it right. Those who increased their bat speed from 2023 to 2024, but without increasing the swing length – and saw how the bat speed took off.

Here are seven well -known players who enter the 2025 season with their bat speeds.

1) Fernando Tatis Jr., Padres
2023 bat speed: 73.0 MPH | 2024 bat speed: 74.9 miles per hour (+1.9 miles per hour)

Tatis Jr. had one of the biggest increases in the bat speed of a qualification racket from 2023 to 2024, but the length of his rocking remained exactly the same. Tatis’ average swing speed rose from 73 miles per hour to almost 75 miles per hour last season, but its swing length remained 7.4 feet.

This led too much more dangerous contact from the Padres outfield. Tatis produced an “explosion”-a swing that combined both a high bat speed and a square contact on the sweet spot of the bat-with 17.9% of its fluctuations in 2024, compared to 12.7% of its swings a year 2023. And lo and behold, in 2024 Tatis was a more dangerous bat with 130 ops+ compared to his 110 OPS+ in 2023.

Its bat speed also reached the most important time, the post -season. Tatis’ average bat speed in the 2024 playoffs rose to 78.0 miles per hour-third highest higher higher behind only stanton (81.8 miles per hour) and Kyle Schwarber (78.2 miles per hour) and 31.8% of his fluctuations Explosions. No wonder that he had a 1,500 ops and four homes in seven games.

Lindor’s revival of his break -in in the early season in 2024 was largely due to an increase in its bat speed and the square contact. This increase was so strong that even if you compared it to 2023 Lindor – who had a strong second half – which Lindor did in the course of the 2024 season.

Also his bats on both sides of the plate. Lindor, a switch-hitter, increased its bat speed of 70.9 miles per hour to 72.3 miles per hour as a left-hander and from 71.2 miles per hour to 72.8 miles per hour as a right-hander.

In the meantime, he was able to consistently keep his square rate from 2023 to 2024, even if he swung faster, and if they put the bat on the ball with a faster swing, you will receive even better results.

3) Willy Adames, giants
2023: 72.5 miles per hour | 2024: 73.6 miles per hour (+1.1 miles per hour)

Adames joins his first season, with the Giants 2024 having a big bouncback year. The former Brewers Shortstop had a rarely the total number rose from 24 to 32 career height and his hits rose from 120 to 153 career height.

The way for this improvement was a faster bat. Adames added a full mileage per hour bat speed, and his swing, although it is generally long, actually became a bit shorter and went from 8.2 feet to 8.1 feet. In 2023, less than a quarter of his fluctuations qualified as “fast fluctuations” by statasses over 75 MPH-bats. In 2024, over a third of his swings swung quickly. These faster, shorter swings made it easier for him to connect and connect for electricity.

4) Matt Chapman, Giants
2023: 75.5 miles per hour | 2024: 76.6 miles per hour (+1.1 miles per hour)

Chapman had a quick bat as early as 2023. But in 2024 it got even faster. In 2023, the third Baseman of the Giants was bound in MLB with average bat speed 23. In 2024 he took the sixth place-and he had one of the shortest fluctuations in every batsman with top 10 bat speed, 7.5 feet.

In particular, Chapman was able to quickly hover to the 75 miles per hour in fluctuations that reached the extreme end of the bat speed, about 80 miles per hour or higher.

The result of these extreme fluctuations was that Chapman for a few more “Power” Skuckos (he had an increase in the explosion rate) a little “contact” (he had a slight decline in the square rate). This explains that Chapman’s double-digit home-run increase from 17 in 2023 with the Blue Jays to 27 in 2024 with San Francisco.

Chapman’s bat gains took a while until he entered because he had a slow start to the season due to bad luck (his results were worse at an early age than his expected statistics, which were based on his contact quality). But when they entered, they really came up – Chapman started with a slugging percentage of 0.548 and 0.890 ops in the second half of 2024 during the season.

Contreras was a breakout star for the Brewers in 2023, and he became even better in 2024 and took fifth place in the MVP vote of the National League. His bat speed certainly contributes to his success on the plate.

The young catcher was sitting directly under the 75 miles per hour mark last season, but more than half of his competitive fluctuations broke this rapid swing. And he just had much less often, which indicates that his improvement in the bat speed was a reflection that he recognized the pitches better and put aggressive swings on the ball.

Contreras also did a great job to combine the sweet spot of the bat with the baseball in its fast swings and ended up in the top 10 in MLB in 2024. Very good, but on the MLB Blasts ranking on 14th place.

We will work with two of the best rackets in baseball. The first is Henderson, who passed “MVP competitor” in 2023 in 2023 in 2024.

Henderson has average benchmark on average or over the 75 miles per hour every month. And its average swing length throughout the time was 7.2 feet, only a little shorter than the Major League average of 7.3 feet.

Of the top 10 goals in the 2024 bat ranking, none had a more compact swing than Henderson.

7) Juan Soto, Mets
2023: 74.6 MPH | 2024: 75.5 miles per hour (+0.9 miles per hour)

Last but not least is Soto, whose elite bat speed later make him for swinging decisions, fight the pitcher’s parking spaces and tear the baseball when he gets the field he wants.

Soto is always one of the best rackets on the planet. But 2024 could have been his best season so far. And would you not know that he had even better bat speed.

The average bat speed of Soto went with the Yankees in 2023 from just below the fast threshold with the Padres to just above the fast threshold in 2024. And Soto is a unique batsman who has elite bat speed And Is elite to squeeze the baseball on the barrel of the bat. Combine these two factors and until the end of the 2024 season, only NL MVP Shohei Ohtani, whose Dodgers Sotos Yankees survived to win the World Series, had more “blast” spick Homeruns between the regular season and the playoffs.

Sotos bat speed was at its best in the late season when he fought absolutely for the Bronx bombers and beat with an ops and four home runs of 1.102 .327. During the 2024 Playoffs, Soto achieved an average speed of 76.5 miles per hour than in every regular season month for the 2023 or 2004 season. And its swing was the same beautiful but violent swing that is always.

At the age of 26, Soto only gains bat speed. This is only a plus for the METS because you expect your debut for you in 2025.