Playing with our new QBaB tools
Jul 23 2025
In case you missed it earlier this year, we integrated our Quality of Batted Ball (QBaB) metric into a number of areas on the site. Ray Murphy touched on the changes in a mid-season GM's Office column; here's where you can find QBaB scores on the site:
- Playerlink pages for each hitter:
- General tab (YTD, Last7, Last31 days)
- Monthly tab
- Historical tab
- Platoon splits tab (2025 data only)
- Historical Stats page
- Stat Type = Advanced
- CSV Downloads page
- YTD and YTD+Proj stats downloads
And if you're unfamiliar with QBaB, which debuted in the 2022 Baseball Forecaster, it boils down the Statcast measures of exit velocity and launch angle to a simple three-digit code for every hitter. The original research from Arik Florimonte can be found here, and...
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