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...
Almost!
You’re just a few clicks away from accessing this feature and hundreds more throughout the year that have a singular goal in mind: Winning your league. Subscribe to BaseballHQ.com here!
Already a subscriber? Sign in here
More From Speculator
What lessons can we apply from Drew Rasmussen's 2025 breakout to this year's player pool?
Mar 11 2026 8:36am
Mar 11 2026 8:36am
Applying lessons learned from George Springer's 2025 breakout to this year's player pool
Mar 4 2026 3:04am
Mar 4 2026 3:04am
This week's exercise is all about picking holes to help avoid early-round busts.
Feb 25 2026 3:10am
Feb 25 2026 3:10am
Sure, they struggled last year, but if we remove some recency bias, granting mulligans could be a lucrative exercise.
Feb 18 2026 3:06am
Feb 18 2026 3:06am
Our annual look at who changed their pitch mix the most in-season last year, and (most importantly) whether it worked.
Feb 11 2026 3:06am
Feb 11 2026 3:06am
