Gambles, 2025
Mar 10 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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