Exit Velocity is one of the advanced metrics that gets talked about the most in baseball 2021. Most people know it. But if you don’t know it, it is the speed at which the ball travels off the bat. If balls are leaving the ball with a high exit velocity, it is likely the pitcher is a bit more of a gas can than a dominant starter. This is what we could consider hard contact versus soft contact. Milwaukee Brewers’s first baseman Dan Vogelbach hit a home run that traveled 114 mph off his bat. The fastest a ball has traveled for Vogelbach in his career. When mentioned about it after the game, he did not give one shit about it.

Daniel Vogelbach was unimpressed by his 114.3 mph exit velo on his fourth-inning HR:

"If it goes over the fence, I don’t care if it’s 85 or 110. If it’s a homer, it’s a homer for me. Just happy to put some good swings on the ball the past couple games."

— Todd Rosiak (@Todd_Rosiak) May 9, 2021

Pink bat homers>Normal homers#ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/8oQTngBaId

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) May 9, 2021

If you were to ask me, ‘Charlie, which Brewers player do you think cares about exit velocity the least?’ My answer would have likely been Vogelbach in the top five. He seems like a grown-up version of Big Al who is just there to hit dingers and nothing else. Vogelbach now has four home runs on the young season. Let’s hope he can get hot here in the coming days and create a home run streak. We will not note his exit velocity next time.

Charlie.