What's New on Baseball Savant

This page details the five most recent updates to the Baseball Savant page as our team pushes them to the live site, including new features, notable bugfixes, quality of life and visual improvements, and more.

To see an index of all changelog entries on record, click here.

Hot Stove Tracker and automatic pitches in search added
  • A new Hot Stove tracker was added to the site, collecting Statcast data for the current year's free agents.

  • In addition, the search page was updated to include non-pitches (like intentional walks and automatic balls and strikes), which will allow for a more accurate display of OBP and other metrics across search spans.

Player Breakdown updates to Gamefeed
  • Player Breakdown tab of the Gamefeed updated to include new metrics, including pitch usage by times through the batting order and pitch velocity by inning. (Example here)


Intentional walks and automatic pitches in Gamefeed; postseason/All-Star in 3D pitch app
  • Intentional walks and automatic pitches now show in the Baseball Savant Gamefeed.
  • Postseason games and All-Star Games now show for pitchers in the 3D pitch tracks app. (Example here)


Vizcast available on Baseball Savant Gamefeed
  • "Vizcast" -- a Statcast-driven Gameday feed with live stats, Statcast tracking and data visualizations -- is now available on Baseball Savant for desktop and mobile devices. Access the Vizcast feed during live games only on the Baseball Savant Gamefeed.


Pitcher platoon usage visual
  • Pitcher platoon usage visual (pitch types thrown vs. RHH/LHH) now available on Baseball Savant player pages.