Joe Mack can hit. He can even run a bit. But the thing that is going to make him immediately valuable to the Miami Marlins ...
In early March, MLB.com rolled out a new stat: catcher pop times. A combination of two measures (arm strength and the quickness of transfer from catch to throw), pop times use Statcast to time how ...
Not only that, but that throw is now the fastest pop time to second base in Giants history (from the Statcast era on, which began in 2015), and each of the top 14 throws on that list belong to ...