MLB is on pace to hit more than 6,000 homers in a season for the first time...

[Brother Buzz]

shattering the record of 5,693 set in 2000 during the steroid era.

How's your team doing contributing to this potential new record? Any new rising stars we should be looking at (Aaron Judge aside)?


My Giants are in last place, of course, and contributing squat. And to give an indication how bad they are, ponder this factoid: By late July, Padres player, Wil Myers, had more homers at AT&T Park than Posey, Pence, Crawford and Panik combined. Sad.

[redstateblues]

1. Don't they say "Chicks dig the long ball?" The new Braves stadium is built

for long ball hitters. It cuts both ways unfortunately, especially when you have weak pitching.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Long ball hitters fill the stands, but base hitters win the games

[tonyt53]

3. Hitting has evolved into a science. Notice batting averages difference from now vs 20 years ago.

I read an article about this a couple of years ago. Strikeouts used to be frowned upon. This is where the science comes in. By swinging upwards a bit, it has been found that a player has a better percentage of getting on base than hitting it on the ground between infielders. They are ALL swinging for "it" at every plate appearance. The odds are better getting the ball between three outfielders as compared to five infielders (including the pitcher). Charlie Lau is rolling over in his grave.

About AT&T Park - right field sucks the ball out of that place!

[Brother Buzz]

4. With all the nooks and crannies in right field, the ball doesn't even have to even leave the park

for a homer. Here's a good one that happened on Monday:

Note: Carlos Moncrief was just called up to the majors for the first time and didn't have right field dialed in like Hunter Pence, but he deserves high marks for his rocket arm. Later in the game, he threw a rocket line drive from deep right field directly to third and got the runner out. Bummer, Moncrief has been in the minors for a decade and we've never seen him until now because he's got a weak stick.

AT&T park is definitely a wet dream for left-handed power hitters.