How Yankees’ Cody Bellinger is a freak of nature rebutting new-age analytics

How Yankees’ Cody Bellinger is a freak of nature rebutting new-age analytics

CHICAGO — When Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger takes a cut in the batter’s bat, there’s nothing elite about his bat speed. His average swing registers 70.2 mph. That’s a couple ticks below the 72.1 league average, far slower than team leader Giancarlo Stanton’s 80.6 and ahead of just one Yankees position player, 5-foot-10 super-utility player Jose Caballero’s 68.1.