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Giancarlo Stanton held the MLB record for highest exit velocity at 122.2 miles per hour (196.7 km/h) from 2015 to 2022. In baseball statistics, exit velocity (EV) is the estimated speed at which a batted ball is travelling as it is coming off the player's bat.
His maximum exit velocity of 120.0 was 2nd in MLB; it was his 10th straight season in the top 1% of all MLB batters. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] In the ALCS against the Cleveland Guardians , Stanton hit four home runs and had an OPS of 1.222 in five games, winning the LCS MVP Award as the Yankees advanced to the 2024 World Series . [ 115 ]
The maximum exit velocity of balls he hit was 116.9 mph, 7th-highest in major league baseball. [52] On defense, his .998 fielding percentage was second-best among NL first basemen, and the best in franchise history.
[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2024 MLB season] Bryce Miller has added a splitter. ... His highest exit velocity was 110.6. The fourth ball he put in play this spring ...
In the top of the 10th inning of a tied ALCS Game 5, ... — MLB (@MLB) October 20, 2024 ... no player has produced more home runs with at least a 117 mph exit velocity than Stanton with 22.
He registered career lows in hard-hit rate (31.6%; 12th percentile in MLB), barrel rate (3.2%; sixth percentile) and average exit velocity (86.3 mph; ninth percentile). These are troubling trends.
In 2024, Cruz batted .259/.324/.449 with 21 home runs, 76 RBIs, and 22 stolen bases, and had the highest maximum exit velocity in MLB, at 121.5 mph. [22]
Prior to the 2018 season, Mike Petriello of MLB.com rated Ozuna the best left fielder in the major leagues, opining him as "a strong fielder," and averaging the 12th-highest exit velocity [91 miles per hour (146 km/h)] over the prior three seasons of all hitters with at least 1,000 plate appearances. [22]