The numbers behind this spring's most impressive performers

One big difference at Spring Training this year is that full Statcast tracking is now available at every ballpark, which means we get a ton more data on all the players around the league.

And there are already plenty of players who stand out -- hitters and pitchers, stars and prospects alike. Let's dive into some numbers that are worth paying attention to.

Here are 12 players lighting up Statcast early on in Spring Training 2026.

1) Carlos Lagrange, Yankees
100.0 mph avg. fastball velocity, K's at 102.0 mph and 101.5 mph

Lagrange's stuff is eye-popping. The 22-year-old is one of two players averaging triple digits on his fastball at Spring Training -- the other is Padres ace reliever Mason Miller -- and Lagrange and Miller are tied for the fastest pitch thrown this spring at 102.4 mph. But it's the Yankees prospect who has the fastest strikeout pitch so far: 102.0 mph to fan the Twins' Ryan Jeffers on Friday. Lagrange also had a 101.5 mph K of Eric Wagaman in that game.

2) Jac Caglianone, Royals
120.2 mph double, 116.5 mph double, 115.2 mph HR

Breaking the 120 mph mark as a hitter is a rare feat. Only seven hitters have hit a ball that hard in a Major League game in the entire Statcast era -- Giancarlo Stanton, Oneil Cruz, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Ronald Acuña Jr. and Gary Sánchez. And now Caglianone has done it in a Spring Training game. Along with his 120.2 mph double against the D-backs on Thursday, Caglianone also has a 116.5 mph double and a monster 115.2 mph, 460-foot home run. Elite exit velocities raise your ceiling as a hitter, and the 23-year-old slugger is hitting the ball harder than almost any hitter in the world.

3) Konnor Griffin, Pirates
111.2 mph / 440 foot HR, 7 of 12 batted balls hit 100+ mph

MLB's No. 1 overall prospect hit a home run worthy of that on Tuesday, sending a ball 111.2 mph and 440 feet clear over the imitation Green Monster at the Red Sox's JetBlue Park. Griffin is just 19 years old, but he looks like a big league hitter already, with over half of his batted balls at Spring Training breaking the 100 mph exit velocity threshold, including three home runs.

4) Chase Burns, Reds
54% whiff rate induced

Burns' 4.57 ERA as a rookie belies how ridiculously nasty he is. You should pay a lot more attention to the 23-year-old's 36% strikeout rate and 32% swing-and-miss rate -- and Burns is doing it again at Spring Training 2026. Across his first two spring outings, he's getting whiffs on over half the swings against him, the second-highest whiff rate of any pitcher with at least 25 swings against him. Burns' fastball is averaging 97.4 mph and inducing a 41% whiff rate (very high for a fastball), and his slider is averaging 90.2 mph and inducing a 75% whiff rate.

5) Mike Trout, Angels
29.9 ft/sec top sprint speed

Trout's knee injuries over the last few seasons have kept him from running like he used to, but here's an encouraging sign: Trout has already reached a max speed of 29.9 feet per second on one of his runs early this spring. That's right up against Statcast's "elite" threshold of 30-plus ft/sec for sprint speed (MLB average sprint speed is around 27 ft/sec), and it's a level of speed Trout hadn't posted since April 2024. Afterwards, he even told Angels reporters, "I'm going to get to 30. Because I got more in the tank." Everyone would love to see that version of Trout again.

6) Kazuma Okamoto, Blue Jays
103.4 mph / 431 foot HR, 71% hard-hit rate, 92.2 mph avg. exit velo

Okamoto is now off to play for Samurai Japan in the World Baseball Classic, but before he left, the former Yomiuri Giants star was ripping the ball at his first Blue Jays camp. Five of Okamoto's seven batted balls were hard-hit (95-plus mph), including the 103.4 mph, 431-foot homer he crushed to dead center field off a Clay Holmes low-and-away curveball for his first of the spring.

7) Zac Veen, Rockies
113.3 mph / 468 foot HR

8) Charlie Condon, Rockies
115.3 mph HR

These two young Rockies sluggers have some big swings this spring. The 24-year-old Veen, who cleaned up his life this offseason and beefed up by 40 pounds, has hit the longest home run of the spring -- a 113.3 mph, 468-foot walk-off blast against the White Sox last Monday. The 22-year-old Condon, MLB's No. 70 overall prospect entering 2026, has hit the hardest home run of the spring -- a 115.3 mph rocket against the Royals on Saturday.

9) Cody Ponce, Blue Jays
96.0 mph / 2,485 rpm fastball, 89.0 mph / 780 rpm changeup

Ponce was one of the more interesting free agent signings of the offseason -- the 31-year-old is returning to the Majors after reinventing his career in Korea -- and in his first Spring Training outing, you could see the difference in his stuff. No. 1: Ponce's fastball averaged 96 mph with a strong 2,485 rpm spin rate. When he was last in the big leagues, with the Pirates in 2021, he averaged 93.2 mph and 2,260 rpm. And No. 2: The changeup Ponce learned overseas looks nasty, sitting at 89 mph with a super low spin rate of 780 rpm, which should give it strong tumbling movement even at its high velocity for an offspeed pitch. Ponce used that changeup to strike out MLB's No. 2 overall prospect, the Tigers' Kevin McGonigle, in his spring debut.

10) Ryan Weathers, Yankees
52% whiff rate induced (50%+ on 4 pitch types)

The Yankees' new lefty is a big 2026 breakout candidate for an arsenal that compares to Jesús Luzardo, Tarik Skubal and Garrett Crochet -- and Weathers was overpowering like those dominant southpaws in his first Spring Training start. The 26-year-old got whiffs on over half the swings against him overall -- and individually on four different pitch types, his four-seam fastball (which averaged 98.5 mph, by the way), slider, changeup and sweeper. Oh, and the one pitch that didn't induce a 50% whiff rate? That was his sinker, which averaged 96.7 mph with 19 inches of arm-side run. That pitch is going to be nasty, too.

11) Cameron Cauley, Rangers
112.9 mph HR, 14 hard-hit balls

Cauley, a versatile prospect for the Rangers, is only 5-foot-9, but he's been hitting the ball very hard this spring. The 23-year-old has hit the ball hard more than anyone, in fact. Cauley leads all of Spring Training with 14 hard-hit balls, just ahead of stars like Jackson Chourio and Bobby Witt Jr. And he had his biggest hit so far on Sunday: a 112.9 mph home run off Mariners ace Logan Gilbert.

12) Ryan Lambert, Mets
98.0 mph fastball with 22 inches of induced rise

It must be the 30 raw eggs a day. Lambert's fastball looked explosive in his first outing of the spring, sitting at 98 mph with a very high spin rate of 2,562 rpm and 22 inches of induced vertical break. That should catch your attention, because high spin and high IVB means more "rising" movement for a fastball, which is great for getting swings and misses. And Lambert is generating a ton of rise -- second-most of any pitcher who's thrown at least 10 heaters at Spring Training. A rising, upper-90s fastball like Lambert's should blow hitters away.