HitTrax session reports, decoded
You got the batting report.Now what does it mean?
Upload the results your cage emails you — or just photograph the screen — and we turn them into one clear answer, session after session: is the hitter getting better? No baseball vocabulary required.
Free account, no card. Profiles are private by default.
68.4mph
Avg exit velo
41%
Sweet spot
232ft
Longest
The screen, translated
What the cage shows you
AvgVel
68.4
MaxVel
79.1
LD %
41
MaxDist
232
Twelve abbreviations in one line, gone the moment the next hitter steps in.
What you get back
- Average exit velocity up 3.2 mph since his last visit.
- New personal best: 79.1 mph off the bat.
- Line drives at 41% — his most productive session yet.
Plain sentences, plus the chart behind them.
Three steps, every visit
Bring the session in
Spreadsheet, a photo of the cage screen, pasted email text, or typed by hand. Odd column names are fine — you match them once and we remember.
Check it before it saves
Every value lands on a review screen first, with anything uncertain flagged. Nothing is stored until you say so.
See the direction
Charts and plain-English notes tell you what improved since last time and what to keep an eye on.
Built for two people
Parents
One hitter, no baseball vocabulary, and a session email you were never taught to read. Parent Mode spells out every abbreviation and tells you in a sentence whether this visit was better than the last.
Coaches
A cage full of hitters and no time to keep spreadsheets. Give every player a profile, upload their sessions in seconds, and pull up the trend line before you start the next lesson.
What the numbers mean
- Exit velocity
- How fast the ball leaves the bat, in mph. The clearest measure of hitting power.
- Launch angle
- The upward angle the ball leaves at. Roughly 10–25° is where hits live.
- Sweet spot %
- How often contact lands in that productive angle window.
- Contact rate
- How often the bat actually finds the ball instead of missing.
Every abbreviation on the cage screen is spelled out in HitTrax stats explained.
Learn the numbers
What is HitTrax?
What the system in the cage measures, and why it matters.
Read itHitTrax stats explained
P, AB, EBH, AvgVel — every abbreviation on the scoreboard.
Read itExit velocity by age
Typical ranges from 8U through high school, so you know what is normal.
Read itRead your report
A parent's guide to every column in the session email.
Read itCommon questions
- What is a HitTrax batting report?
- HitTrax is a camera and radar system fitted in many batting cages. When it is switched on it records every pitch: pitch speed, how hard the ball came off the bat, the angle it left at, how far it would have travelled and where it would have landed. Most cages email you a summary or a spreadsheet afterwards — that email is your batting report.
- Do I need HitTrax to use Batting Report?
- No. Any spreadsheet with one row per swing works, and you can also snap a photo of the cage screen or simply type the numbers in. You tell Batting Report which column is which once, and it remembers that layout next time.
- I don't know baseball. Will this still make sense?
- Yes — that is who it is built for. Turn on Parent Mode and every abbreviation is replaced with a full name and a plain-English explanation, and each session is summed up in ordinary sentences like "average exit velocity increased by 3.2 mph".
- Is my child's exit velocity normal for his age?
- Roughly: 38–45 mph average at 8U, 52–60 at 12U, 60–68 at 14U and 75–85 for high school varsity. Those ranges are orientation, not a grade — the honest benchmark is the same hitter three months ago, which is exactly what the trend charts show.
- Can a coach track a whole roster?
- Yes. Add a player profile for each hitter and upload their sessions the same way. Every player keeps their own history, personal records and progress charts, and profiles stay private unless you share them.
- Which numbers actually matter for a young hitter?
- Four of them. Average and peak exit velocity show how hard the ball is being hit. Launch angle and sweet spot rate show whether that contact is productive. Contact rate shows how often the bat finds the ball. Watching those trend upward over months is the real signal — one session never is.
- Is Batting Report free?
- Yes. A free account covers player profiles, session uploads and full progress charts. Paid plans for unlimited history, multiple players and team rosters come later.
Start with one session
The first upload sets the baseline. Everything after that is measured against it — that is when the picture starts to form.
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