Marcelo Mayer, Matt Shaw Post Top Bat Speeds At Futures Game

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Because the Futures Game was played at an MLB park (Texas’ Globe Life Field), bat speed data was collected for every hitter at the game.

Now, there’s only so much that can be taken from one game of data. In some cases, we’re talking about one swing (as it’s measuring swings on swings that make contact). Bat speeds stabilize quickly (to where you can infer what a hitter’s average and max bat speed is), but they don’t within one game.

So take this as a useful tidbit of information we don’t normally get on minor league players, not something that is anything more than that. For example, no bat speed recorded in the Futures Game is within five mph of the max bat speed recorded in an MLB game this year and 213 MLB hitters have had a max bat speed of 82 mph or harder, which is the highest speed recorded in the Futures Game.

Colson Montgomery is left off. The White Sox third baseman did record a 48 mph bat speed when he reached on catcher’s interference, but that’s not exactly a real bat speed.