This article references Aaron Judge, Eric Hosmer, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, J.D. Martinez, Joey Gallo, Khris Davis, Matt Davidson, Matt Olson, Randal Grichuk and more! If you've watched a baseball broadcast in the so-called Statcast Era, you have undoubtedly noticed the broadcasters commenting on a batted ball's exit velocity, or EV. Many have taken to using stats like Hard% and Soft% to forecast how a player should be performing, expecting larger Hard% rates to produce larger BABIP and HR/FB figures. There is a relationship there, but it is not as clear-cut as you might think. The hardest batted ball of the 2017 season was struck by Giancarlo Stanton. It w[...]Keep on reading: Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball, Part 3 - Statcast for Batters