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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.
He played in 131 games for the Pirates in 2024, slashing .243/.299/.392 with 13 home runs and 56 RBIs over 421 plate appearances, with a maximum exit velocity of 115.5 mph that was 20th-highest in MLB for the year, as on defense his .998 fielding percentage was second-highest among NL first basemen.
Last season, Realmuto put 357 balls in play. His highest exit velocity was 110.6. The fourth ball he put in play this spring — a rocket groundout to shortstop — was lasered at 110.8. Now, as ...
He played in 149 games, hitting .249/.339/.538 with 36 home runs and 74 RBIs in 450 at bats, and was 5th in the NL and tied for 5th of all Dodgers ever with a home run every 12.5 at bats. [ 132 ] [ 85 ] He tied the major league record with six multi-homer games from the leadoff spot (matching Francisco Lindor in 2018).
Aug. 20—Idle Thoughts, while waiting for UConn football (OK, not really), the Yankees to mix in a line drive and for Serena to win the U.S. Open: Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, happened ...
He was in the bottom 1% of all major league players in speed, had career lows in his exit velocity (86.8 mph) and hard hit percentage (31.9%), and had a career-high strikeout percentage (25.9%). [41] He played 49 games at DH, and six games in the corner outfield. [36] In the post-season, he went hitless in two at bats. [36]
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
Michael Wilson played high school basketball at Melrose High School in Memphis, Tennessee. The Texarkana Gazette reported that he had a 52-inch vertical leap. In 1995, he was a starter on the University of Memphis Tiger basketball team that went to the Sweet 16 under coach Larry Finch. Wilson is the former Director of Headfirst Basketball. [3]