Very early sub-indicator surgers, 2025
Apr 28 2025
It's still risky to put significant stock into early-season skills, especially aggregate measures like BA, HR, RBI, and OPS. But looking into the components that drive them can be a helpful early-season exercise, since they represent larger sample sizes.
These three batting sub-indicators are key underlying drivers of a hitter's surface stats:
- Swinging Strike Rate (SwK%)
- Chase Rate (Chase %)
- Average Exit Velocity (EV):
Here are three groups of batters who have improved their hitting sub-indicators so far in 2025.
1) These batters have improved their SwK% the most from 2024 to 2025 (min 30+ PA each season):
| 2024 | 2025 | Δ | ||||||||
| Name | Lg | SwK% | Chase % | EV | SwK% | Chase % | EV | SwK% | Chase % | EV |
| Andy Ibáñez | AL | 14.2% | 36.4% | 88.4 | 6.8% | 35.5% | 89.6 | -7.4% | -0.9% | 1.2 |
| Marcell Ozuna | ||||||||||
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