Gambles, 2025

This column will help you identify batters who might be overvalued heading into draft day. We'll do so by looking at batters whose returns in 2024 were not backed by strong underlying skill support.

Here are the batters who had the lowest average exit velocity (EV) among those who posted a .750+ OPS in 2024 (min 50+ PA):

NameLgTmbb%ct%Eye OPSSwK%EVLABrl%
Rafael MarchánNLPHI6%84%0.38 .8946.7%85.8 16.6 6.8%
Jose IglesiasNLSD4%86%0.31 .8307.5%85.8 9.0 2.2%
Xavier EdwardsNLMIA11%80%0.63 .8207.1%86.1 6.7 1.8%
Steven KwanALCLE10%89%1.04 .7932.8%86.3 14.9 2.6%
Jose AltuveALHOU7%81%0.39 .79010.4%86.5 14.1 6.5%
Connor WongALBOS6%74%0.25 .75813.6%86.5 12.9 6.3%
Jacob StallingsNLCOL10%73%0.42 .81011.5%86.6 12.8 7.2%
Juan YepezNLWAS7%

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