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):

Name	Lg	Tm	bb%	ct%	Eye	OPS	SwK%	EV	LA	Brl%
Rafael Marchán	NL	PHI	6%	84%	0.38	.894	6.7%	85.8	16.6	6.8%
Jose Iglesias	NL	SD	4%	86%	0.31	.830	7.5%	85.8	9.0	2.2%
Xavier Edwards	NL	MIA	11%	80%	0.63	.820	7.1%	86.1	6.7	1.8%
Steven Kwan	AL	CLE	10%	89%	1.04	.793	2.8%	86.3	14.9	2.6%
Jose Altuve	AL	HOU	7%	81%	0.39	.790	10.4%	86.5	14.1	6.5%
Connor Wong	AL	BOS	6%	74%	0.25	.758	13.6%	86.5	12.9	6.3%
Jacob Stallings	NL	COL	10%	73%	0.42	.810	11.5%	86.6	12.8	7.2%
Juan Yepez	NL	WAS	7%

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