With the first half of the 2026 MLB season winding down, the Braves are deep enough into the season where stats have normalized. With that in mind, we wanted to dig into a few Statcast outliers from Atlanta Braves players so far.
From the fast and unhittable Braves, to the confusing and not so enjoyable, these are the eight Braves Statcast stats that stood out to us the most.
These are the Braves' biggest Statcast outliers from the first half of 2026
Eli White and Jorge Mateo - 100th-percentile sprint speed
Speed has been one issue for the Braves for a while. Last season they were the fifth-worst in swiping bags and 27th in BsR. During the offseason, they swiped first base coach Antoan Richardson from New York Mets to address this.
While the Braves have only slightly improved their base running, they did add another speedster to join Eli White. The two Braves reserves rank second and third in MLB. Mateo is slightly faster, coming in at 30.4 feet per second, while White is just a tick behind at 30.3
Sandy León - 1st-percentile sprint speed
In addition to having two of the fastest players in the league, the Braves also at one point rostered the slowest. At 22.1 feet per second, Sandy León has been the slowest player in MLB this season by 1.6 feet per second.
Dylan Lee - 99th-percentile xERA
It should be no surprise to Braves fans at this point, but Dylan Lee is an elite reliever. Despite throwing a fastball that averages 93.3 MPH, which ranks in the 28th-percentile, batters still can't touch the lefty. His 1.56 ERA is only slightly outperforming his xERA of 1.95. This ranks in the 99th percentile in MLB.
Lee also ranks in the 99th-percentile in whiff-rate, and is in the 89th-percentile in xBA, chase-rate, K-rate, walk-rate, barrel percentage, and hard-hit rate. Simply put, all the metrics confirm that Lee is one of the best relievers in MLB.
Michael Harris II - 92% estimated success rate
Michael Harris II has been excellent defensively this season, unsurprisingly. With six outs above average, the Braves center fielder ranks in the 95th percentile in defense.
What is peculiar, however, is he has the third-highest estimated success rate, which means he hasn't necessarily been faced with a lot of adversity. Where other center fielders like Pete Crow-Armstrong and Jacob Young have had to chase down a lot more balls with lower catch probabilities, batters seem to be hitting the ball right at Money Mike.
Still, if Harris is coming up with the catch if tough play comes his way. He's 24 for 31 on balls with catch probabilities of 75% or lower this season, with four of his misses being on balls with 25% odds or lower.
Michael Harris II - 1st-percentile chase rate
This will shock no one, but Michael Harris II is the biggest free swinger in all of baseball, and has been ever since he came up to the major leagues. After struggling for the bulk of last season, many believed the only way to fix Money Mike was to get him to chase less.
This has not happened. The Braves center fielder has increased his chase rate from 43.1% to 45.1%. Only Jake Mangum (47.9%) and Ezqequiel Tovar (46%) chase pitches out of the zone at a higher rate.
Michael Harris II - 99th-percentile xBA
The thing about Harris's chase rate, however, is that it absolutely has not stopped him this season. Harris ranks in the 99th-percentile with a .302 xBA. Thanks to a 50% hard-hit rate that ranks in the 89th-percentile, the All-Star snub is simply crushing pitches when he's hitting them.
Although it appears he'll never fully be able to leave the chase behind, he's managed to figure out how to return to his 2022 NL Rookie of the Year form in 2026, and has been a big reason for the Braves overall success in the first half.
Martín Pérez - 2nd-percentile fastball velocity
Martín Pérez has never been a flamethrower, and 2026 is no exception. So far this season, only 10 pitchers have had a slower average velocity than Pérez. Despite the low velocity (and slightly worrisome underlying metrics), Pérez managed to do an adequate job at run prevention. Hopefully for the Braves, his arm injury isn't too serious.
Dominic Smith - 10th-percentile bat speed
Dominic Smith may have the looks of a slugger, but he doesn't have the bat speed. Despite having six homers this year, his average bat speed of 68.7 MPH ranks in the 10th-percentile, lower than Nick Allen's 68.8 MPH bat speed.
Smith has just 20 swings this season 75 MPH or harder, which are classified as "fast swings" by Baseball Savant. For context, Joey Bart, who has been on the team for less than two weeks and has just 29 plate appearances in a Braves uniform, has more fast swings than Smith.
For what it's worth, Smith has just five swings 80 MPH or above, since the the addition of the bat speed in 2023, and three have come this season, so it's not like Smith used to swing harder before joining Atlanta.
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