Batters Bat Speed Gainers & Decliners — April 20, 2026 | RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball

# Batters Bat Speed Gainers & Decliners — April 20, 2026

April 20, 2026

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Among qualified batters between 2023 and 2025, Statcast’s BatSpd has a 0.662 correlation with HR/FB rate, the highest among all the metrics in our Statcast – Bat Tracking section. So it follows that we should constantly be monitoring the biggest gainers and decliners as names on either list could either validate current performance or predict future performance. Let’s now discuss the hitters on each end of that spectrum.

We’ll start with the gainers. I arbitrarily chose 2.0 MPH in BatSpd as the minimum gain for this list.

BatSpd Gainers

| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Nick Allen | HOU | AL | 64.5 | 68.6 | 4.1 |

| Ryan Kreidler | MIN | AL | 71.0 | 74.9 | 4.0 |

| Alex Call | LAD | NL | 66.1 | 70.0 | 3.9 |

| Cam Smith | HOU | AL | 74.5 | 78.0 | 3.5 |

| Jonny DeLuca | TBR | AL | 71.0 | 74.2 | 3.1 |

| Michael Massey | KCR | AL | 70.1 | 72.9 | 2.8 |

| Denzel Clarke | ATH | AL | 74.3 | 77.0 | 2.7 |

| Graham Pauley | MIA | NL | 69.6 | 72.3 | 2.7 |

| Wenceel Pérez | DET | AL | 70.5 | 73.0 | 2.5 |

| Mitch Garver | SEA | AL | 71.8 | 74.2 | 2.4 |

| Mark Vientos | NYM | NL | 71.2 | 73.7 | 2.4 |

| Austin Slater | MIA | NL | 69.6 | 72.0 | 2.4 |

| Nathan Church | STL | NL | 69.0 | 71.3 | 2.3 |

| Matt McLain | CIN | NL | 69.7 | 72.0 | 2.3 |

| Miguel Vargas | CHW | AL | 70.6 | 72.9 | 2.2 |

| José Tena | WSN | NL | 70.8 | 73.0 | 2.2 |

| Luke Keaschall | MIN | AL | 66.9 | 69.1 | 2.2 |

| Zach McKinstry | DET | AL | 67.5 | 69.6 | 2.1 |

| Yohel Pozo | STL | NL | 69.5 | 71.5 | 2.1 |

| Brandon Lockridge | MIL | NL | 71.1 | 73.2 | 2.1 |

| Colt Keith | DET | AL | 70.7 | 72.8 | 2.0 |

Cam Smith is the first fantasy relevant name on this list, with a robust 3.5 MPH gain. He was already well above average last year, but now ran