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Know Your Numbers: A Parent’s Guide to Baseball Performance Metrics

Baseball recruiting and development are more data-driven than ever, but knowing a number isn’t the same as understanding what it means.

This guide helps parents and athletes understand the key metrics used to evaluate baseball performance, including exit velocity, bat speed, throwing velocity, pitching velocity, 60-yard dash, 10-yard split, movement measurements, and catcher pop time.

More importantly, we’ll explain how those numbers should be interpreted based on an athlete’s age, position, development, and goals.

At PORDL, we believe metrics should answer more than “What did you score?” They should help answer:

Where are you now? Where do you need to improve? And what should you work on next?

Because a number without context isn’t a development plan