Getting into play Sunday, the bat-speed leaderboard principally contained names you’ll think about belong on a bat-speed leaderboard. Rays phenom Junior Caminero swung the quickest within the majors, adopted by gifted Cardinals prime prospect Jordan Walker, adopted by Pirates Statcast-darling Oneil Cruz. Yordan Alvarez ranked fifth, simply forward of Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Decide.
Narrowly behind the highest group, with a swing that may be a few ticks shy of Pete Alonso’s and Kyle Schwarber’s and some ticks faster than Elly De La Cruz’s and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s, was Brett Baty.
With a median bat velocity of 75.6 mph, the Mets’ pissed off and studying infielder ranked sixteenth in all of baseball.
“That doesn’t surprise me,” co-hitting coach Jeremy Barnes mentioned just lately. “We’ve recognized that he’s a freak athlete and has an amazing quantity of instruments for some time now.
