Ahead of the 2025 MLB season, Baseball Savant, MLB's Statcast data platform and website, released a new set of stats for the public to use related to batting stances. It tracks foot placement of each batter at stance set, at pitch release and at bat-ball intercept, giving rise to an entirely new way to quantify a previously eye-testy part of the game.
Now, it's easier than ever to correlate a player making stance adjustments with improved performance, and with a significant portion of the season in the rearview mirror here in mid-May, it's worth seeing the early returns of players who have come in with adjusted stances compared to last season.
