Very early sub-indicator surgers, 2025

It's still risky to put significant stock into early-season skills, especially aggregate measures like BA, HR, RBI, and OPS. But looking into the components that drive them can be a helpful early-season exercise, since they represent larger sample sizes.

These three batting sub-indicators are key underlying drivers of a hitter's surface stats:

Here are three groups of batters who have improved their hitting sub-indicators so far in 2025.

1) These batters have improved their SwK% the most from 2024 to 2025 (min 30+ PA each season):

  20242025Δ
NameLgSwK%Chase %EV SwK%Chase %EV SwK%Chase %EV 
Andy IbáñezAL14.2%36.4%88.4 6.8%35.5%89.6 -7.4%-0.9%1.2 
Marcell Ozuna

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