Very early observations, 2025

Let's take a very early look at some notable week one performances among batters by analyzing them in terms of their batted ball metrics.

The hitters have shown the highest average exit velocities (EV) so far in 2025 (min 30 PA):

Name	Lg	bb%	ct%	BABIP	OPS	SwK%	EV	LA	Brl%
Shohei Ohtani	NL	18%	78%	.308	.990	10.6%	99.1	12.7	6.9%
Eugenio Suárez	NL	17%	70%	.063	1.085	13.9%	98.7	20.1	33.3%
Kyle Schwarber	NL	9%	77%	.250	1.099	9.5%	98.4	17.8	16.7%
Aaron Judge	AL	11%	70%	.353	1.447	14.2%	98.0	18.7	39.1%
Nathaniel Lowe	NL	6%	45%	.545	.978	14.1%	97.5	15.4	28.6%
Ben Rice	AL	17%	72%	.375	1.073	10.3%	97.5	11.7	33.3%
Elly De La Cruz	NL	5%	78%	.269	.762	11.4%	97.0	8.6	21.4%
Adolis García	AL	10%	89%	.136	.831	16.2%	96.5	31.4	29.2%
Alex Bregman	AL	5%	74%	.400	.837	5.7%	96.3	18.6	7.7%
Pete Alonso	NL	18%	82%	.200	1.025

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