"Perhaps a sign that 2025 was going to be a rough season for the Atlanta Braves is the fact that they didn't hit the ball as hard as they had as a collective over the past few preceding seasons. Even in 2024 when they limped into the Postseason, the Braves were second in baseball for average exit velocity at 89.9 mph. They slipped into seventh place with an average exit velocity of 89.7 mph over the course of the 2025 season."
"This one fell nearly 20 feet short of making the cut for the Top 10 Longest Braves Home Runs of 2025 but it ended up making the cut for one of the hardest hit balls by a Braves player this season. Matt Olson was in full attack mode at this point with a 3-0 count against George Soriano. Soriano gave him a meatball and Olson made absolutely no mistake with it."
"This is the first of three outs on this list - sometimes you just need a reminder that this is a cruel sport. Exit Velocity is still very important but at the end of the day this is a sport where failure is the norm. Sometimes you can hit a ball right on the screws and there's just going to be a defender with a glove waiting to collect that ball."
"Unlike Olson's homer earlier, this moonshot from Ronald Acuña Jr. also made the Longest Home Runs list. Devin Williams had a bit of an issue with giving up some higher Exit Velo than he usually gives up. This was not just the hardest ball that he had hit against him during this season, it was the hardest that he's been hit in his entire career -"
The Atlanta Braves' collective average exit velocity declined from 89.9 mph in 2024 to 89.7 mph in 2025, moving the team from second to seventh in MLB. Statcast recorded the season's highest individual exit velocities, and the Braves still produced several exceptionally hard-hit balls despite the overall drop. Matt Olson registered multiple elite-contact swings, including a 3-0 attack on George Soriano, and one near-unstoppable liner was caught for an out. Ronald Acuña Jr. launched a moonshot that ranked among the longest homers and marked the highest exit velocity Devin Williams has surrendered in his career.
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