Are MLB’s Top Hitters Struggling or Sabotaged? The Shocking Truth Behind Their Slow Starts Revealed!
Primarily a DH, he’s been a worse hitter to start 2025 (historically so), but he remains one of the league’s hardest-hitting sluggers (94-mph average exit velocity, hello) and most powerful hitters overall.

Alvarez’s strikeout and walk numbers haven’t changed much from their usual levels, but what has changed is that he’s missed out on the margins. Alvarez only has three homers (very bad) and a below-average 98.9 BIP+, but he’d have a few more if he’d been playing in the right ballparks on the right days. (Just five players have a wider negative gap between their homer count and “expected” homers, per Statcast.)

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