It’s easy to see that Giancarlo Stanton hits the ball harder than anyone else in the majors. All you need to do is look at Statcast, where Stanton’s name is all over the leaders in exit velocity, both in average and in peak. 

What’s more difficult to quantify is what goes into producing those numbers, which is more complicated than mere brute strength. 

New Yankees hitting coach Dillon Lawson said Stanton is the perfect model of the modern hitter. 

“With what he brings to every part of hitting, I’d build that machine every time,’’ Lawson said. 

But he added it wasn’t just because of Stanton’s size and power. 

“It’s also his mindset and personality,’’ Lawson said. “He’s physically gifted, but also a genuine person. And when he talks, it’s very deliberate and meaningful. … He’s smart and has so much experience that we bounce ideas off him before he asks questions. We use him as a reference.’’ 

Entering his 13th major league season — and fifth with the Yankees — Stanton is among those trying to embrace the technological evolution that has impacted offenses over the last five to 10 years. 

“I love to see the information and then filter it however I’d like out of curiosity and any other way to help me be my best,’’ Stanton said of how he uses the advanced information that’s become available to hitters. 

Among the instruments Stanton says he finds especially valuable is slow-motion video. 

“It helps me learn more about my [bat] path direction,’’ Stanton said. “Now I know how my direction is going when I’m going great and how it’s going when I’m not so great. What [bat] speeds am I generating through a certain part of the year, so I can monitor everything to keep me at the highest level possible.” 

Some of those measurables include exit velocity. Last year, Stanton averaged a career-best 95.1 mph, second only to Aaron Judge in Major League Baseball. 

And since Statcast began keeping track of exit velocity in 2015, Stanton has the top six hardest-hit balls, including a pair at 122.2 mph. 

The first was a single off Atlanta’s Max Fried in 2017, and last year he hit a rocket grounder right at Kansas City second baseman Whit Merrifield, who turned it into a double play. 

“I think the ball caught the infielder on that one,’’ Lawson said. 

Stanton also has 16 of the top 20 hardest-hit balls, according to Statcast. 

But there’s also bat speed, which Lawson said of Stanton, “He’s off the charts.” 

“It’s a lot of information [and] too much for some people,’’ Stanton said. “I’m a curious person. I just like to know when it comes to these metrics, ‘What are you basing a good hitter on?’ or ‘What’s a good approach?’ It’s all about trying to get a feel for the new age of the game that you can’t compete without.” 

That process is ongoing. 

“You dive into the information and figure out what you consider a guideline, what works for you,” Stanton said. “And then I say, ‘All right, this is something I look at at the half or after the season or help me monitor once a week. You have to figure that out yourself.” 

Lawson wouldn’t get into too many specifics about how Stanton is looking to improve this season, but did say contact rate was a focus. 

Last season, Stanton’s contact rate (the percentage of times a batter puts a ball in play per swing) was 69.9 percent, right around his career average of 68.4. 

For comparison, Judge was at 73.1 percent in 2021 and is 67.8 over his career, while DJ LeMahieu is at 87 percent for his career. 

“He’s never satisfied,’’ Lawson said of Stanton. “For him, there’s always this drive. He’s unique in that way: Most people who get paid what he gets paid, they kind of sit back and he’s nothing like that. He’s one of the hardest workers on this team. He takes his job very seriously.” 

Stanton’s teammates back that up. 

“Playing against him and coming up, you could see there is obviously a lot of talent and he did a lot of other things well on the field which led you to believe a lot of work was going on behind the scenes,’’ Gerrit Cole said. “Getting a peek behind the curtain, you see how important it is for him to execute his routine and what his process is for that given day. He has to close out all the noise in order to fully commit himself to that. It’s really impressive to see how sharp and fine-tuned that process has gotten over the years.” 

Aaron Hicks has known Stanton since the two were coming up as high school players facing each other in all-star games in the Los Angeles area. 

“He was Mike then,’’ Hicks said of how Stanton was known until he switched to Giancarlo as a major leaguer. “I didn’t know him well, but he’s always been quiet. He’s still quiet. He speaks when it’s time to speak, but he’s not a rah-rah guy.” 

Whether it’s giving teammates hitting tips or advising Hicks on how to trim down this offseason, Hicks said Stanton is “a great teammate.” 

By the time Lawson had been named the new hitting coach for the Yankees, he’d been studying videos of Stanton at-bats for years — dating to Lawson’s days as a college coach. 

“We used to have ‘Stanton drills,’ where guys would have to stay closed off [in their stance] or use an oversized bat,’’ Lawson said. “He does things naturally that other guys can’t do, but it makes them better hitters because it improves their approach.” 

“All of us hitters have extraordinary eyes for the hitting craft,’’ Stanton said. “Even if we don’t hit the same way or don’t relate in the way we generate a swing, we can see stuff that maybe others can’t to help stay where we need to be or make an adjustment.”