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Advanced technology confirms Giancarlo Stanton hits baseballs very, very hard

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Here’s something you probably knew: Giancarlo Stanton hits baseballs incredibly hard.

Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Giancarlo Stanton has averaged 97.95 miles per hour on batted balls for which MLB’s new Statcast data has been made publicly available. That number, as tracked by the outstanding BaseballSavant.com, is more than two full miles per hour faster than the next hardest hitter with at least 15 tracked at-bats. Stanton is to hitting baseballs what Aroldis Chapman is to throwing them, essentially.

MLB implemented Statcast, a radar- and video-based technology that tracks nearly every single thing that happens on a baseball field, in all 30 parks for the first time in 2015. The league expects to release the full Statcast data — complete with leaderboards — sometime later this summer.

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