Marcell Ozuna is the inspiration for this piece on Average Exit Velocity Leaders. Come back to us.
When was being discussed among my fellow Braves friends as an option for the 2020 season, I just didn’t see it. He had always carried elite exit velocity numbers, but only 2017 showed elite offensive production in a 7 year career. There was just no way that Ozuna was going to fill the hole left in the lineup vacated by Josh Donaldson. NO. WAY.
I was way wrong.
Ozuna slashed an astounding .338/.431/.636, annihilating Donaldson’s stat-line nearly as much as he annihilated baseballs.