Exit velocity is the speed of the ball off the bat at contact, measured in mph. The average 10-year-old hits a ball around 50 mph; the average high school senior 82-90 mph; the average MLB hitter posts 88-89 mph with hard-hit balls at 95+ mph. The all-time Statcast max is Aaron Judge’s 122.4 mph in … Read more
An official MLB baseball costs approximately $7 to produce at the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica. At retail, the same Rawlings ROMLB sells for $19.95 directly from Rawlings, $25 from most major retailers, and $30-$50 at ballparks. MLB uses approximately 108 baseballs per game (9 dozen average), which adds up to roughly 262,000 baseballs across … Read more
A balk in baseball is an illegal motion by a pitcher with runners on base. There are 13 official balk rules in the MLB rulebook (Rule 6.02a), and any one of them — caught by an umpire — automatically advances every runner one base. The most common balk is failing to come to a complete … Read more
The greatest closer of all time is Mariano Rivera — a debate so settled that he became the first unanimous Hall of Fame selection in baseball history (425 of 425 votes in 2019). Rivera retired in 2013 with 652 career saves, the all-time record. Behind Rivera, the top closers ever include Trevor Hoffman (601 saves, … Read more
The fastest MLB player ever measured by Statcast is Tim Locastro, who recorded a 30.8 feet-per-second sprint speed in 2019 — the highest single-season average since Statcast began tracking in 2015. The current active sprint speed leader is Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals at 30.5 ft/sec. The all-time stolen base leader is … Read more
The most home runs ever hit in a single MLB season is 73 by Barry Bonds in 2001 — the official record set during baseball’s PED era. The “clean” home run record is held by Aaron Judge, who hit 62 home runs in 2022 to break Roger Maris’s American League record of 61 set in … Read more
The greatest pitcher of all time is Cy Young — a fact so settled that baseball named its annual best-pitcher award after him. Young won 511 games between 1890 and 1911, completed 749 of his starts, and threw 7,356 career innings. All three are records that will never be broken. Behind Young, the all-time pitching … Read more
The greatest Yankee of all time is Babe Ruth — a debate so settled it barely qualifies as one. Ruth hit 659 home runs in pinstripes from 1920 to 1934, won seven World Series, and single-handedly transformed baseball from a singles-and-bunts game into the modern power era. Behind Ruth, the top five typically includes Lou … Read more
The shortest MLB player in history is Eddie Gaedel at 3 feet 7 inches — a 60-pound performer hired by St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck for a 1951 publicity stunt who walked on four straight pitches in his only career at-bat. The shortest active MLB players are Jose Altuve and Tony Kemp, both 5’6″. … Read more
The MLB Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System lets pitchers, catchers, and batters challenge ball and strike calls by tapping their helmet immediately after a pitch. Each team gets two challenges per game and keeps successful ones. Introduced league-wide in the 2026 season, ABS uses 12 Hawk-Eye cameras and T-Mobile’s 5G network to review pitches against … Read more