Three stats to track over the next few weeks

It’s still early enough that looking at numbers probably falls outside the zone of fan interest . Even that pesky win-loss record isn’t supposed to matter as we wade into the season’s waters. But there are some areas of performance that are still worth keeping an eye on, if only to assuage or confirm our fears.

Let’s take a look at three San Francisco Giants stats from their first 13 games that could prove prophetic as the season continues. Heliot Ramos’s bat speed You’ve probably seen it posted elsewhere on social media, but the former All-Star is having a rough start to the season when it comes to a really important part of his hitting game: bat speed. In 2025, he averaged 74 mph swinging the bat, good enough for 77th percentile in baseball.

Through his first 49 plate appearances, gathered from 12 of the Giants’ first 13 games, he’s swinging it at 70 mph on average, which is 29th percentile. That’s bad. It’s a huge dropoff and could indicate an injury.

That might be preferrable to the alternative: a decline. Last season, I spotlighted LaMonte Wade Jr. ’s decline in this same category through just the first five games of the season because he looked so very bad.