There is a huge factor being ignored here, and that is the bats themselves. Guys with the fastest swings swing the longest and thinnest bats barreled bats. This means smaller sweet spot, but since everything is maple and birch now, and every bat is delivered with a compressed barrel, EVs will be highest. Whereas contact hitters like Arraez swings a short CU26, which is more or less a tennis racket. The barrel is massive, which makes it harder to swing fast. However, you really don’t need to since the mass of the barrel will do a lot of the work for you, so you can have a nice short swing and get results. I think teams will optimize to get the best of both worlds, like Wilson Contreras has, by having strong, powerful hitters swing shorter, bigger barreled bats with shorter swings, maybe losing a little max batspeed, but also getting better contact quality more often. Then of course, which was mentioned here was adjustability. A shorter, thicker bat can be swung plenty hard.
There is a huge factor being ignored here, and that is the bats themselves.
Guys with the fastest swings swing the longest and thinnest bats barreled bats. This means smaller sweet spot, but since everything is maple and birch now, and every bat is delivered with a compressed barrel, EVs will be highest. Whereas contact hitters like Arraez swings a short CU26, which is more or less a tennis racket. The barrel is massive, which makes it harder to swing fast. However, you really don’t need to since the mass of the barrel will do a lot of the work for you, so you can have a nice short swing and get results.
I think teams will optimize to get the best of both worlds, like Wilson Contreras has, by having strong, powerful hitters swing shorter, bigger barreled bats with shorter swings, maybe losing a little max batspeed, but also getting better contact quality more often.
Then of course, which was mentioned here was adjustability. A shorter, thicker bat can be swung plenty hard.
interesting
what do you think of smaller batters that do well, like Steven Kwan of the Guardians?
smaller strike zone