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.

World Baseball Classic Statcast search page


Year-to-year zone chart comparisons now available for all players
  • Year-to-year zone chart comparisons for a wide variety of stats are now available for both batters and pitchers. Use the "Compare season" dropdown within the "Zones" tab of Statcast player pages. (Batter example | Pitcher example)


Pitch movement charts added to Statcast search


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)