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A well-struck batted ball in 2025 is flying, on average, about five feet less than it did in 2023. It’s flying more than ten feet less than it did in 2019. It’s the lowest-fly baseball in the decade-long history of tracking. These are enormous differences, especially in a sport where power has become the most reliable, often the only reliable, means of scoring runs.
