Total MLB Home Runs This Century - Graph of the Day
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 8:38 AM EDT
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I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
The second in this continuing series, This Century, we see another standard counting stat drop significantly over the past 10 years. This time, it's home runs dropping from the 2000-2004 average of 5400 drop to a 2005-2009 average of 5000. Shocking on its own, but 2009 looks to have a more-than-300 home run drop from that. That's flabbergasting.
What changed? (more after the jump)
I submit to you the following:
Blame San Francisco.
| YEAR | TOTAL HR | RANK |
| 2000 | 226 | 6th |
| 2001 | 235 | 2nd |
| 2002 | 198 | 6th |
| 2003 | 180 | 12th |
| 2004 | 183 | 17th |
| 2005 | 128 | 28th |
| 2006 | 163 | 22nd |
| 2007 | 131 | 25th |
| 2008 | 94 | 30th |
| 2009* | 109 | 29th |
Obviously, they represent a fraction of the Major League's power recession, but that San-Fran chart above certainly eerily mirrors the MLB chart does it not? What gives? One could make an argument that the mirror is merely a reflection of the renewed focus on sabermetric principles from front offices on their pitching staff, but wouldn't they also use that to help their batters? I could dance around the topic all day, but the truth is that it's probably just regression to the mean. Right?
Yes, I'm pretty much sayin'. ;)
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Yikes. That's pretty close.
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"wouldn't they also use that to help their batters?"
Yes, but with a renewed emphasis on defense, some of the Miguel Tejada’s have been replaced with Elvis Andrus’s. I can’t imagine that effect could cause that huge drop off, but its probably part of it.
by lookatthosetwins on Sep 21, 2009 11:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I believe my sarcasm has combined with your sarcasm to create an unstoppable monster
of unintelligble nonsense
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Somewhat related to global warming...
my favorite correlation ever was in one of my communications classes:
“In the summer, the elderly death rate goes up.
Also in the summer, ice cream sales go up.
ICE CREAM IS KILLING OLD PEOPLE!"
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are there more college students not in school in the summer.
Maybe they are killing old people?
Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.
by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on Sep 21, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clearly, old people get worse health care in the summer (or better, depending on your affiliation).
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also
the humidor in Coors came in halfway through ‘02. I’m not sure if there’s an easy way to see a parks stats from year to year.
by KindredSprites on Sep 21, 2009 4:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That is definitely a MAJOR factor in the 20% drop over the past 10 years.
:(
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
by Justin Bopp on Sep 21, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Obviously as much as the Giants
I’m sure we could show a similar trend between the two.
Of course given this superb reasoning of mine ;P, we would have expected the introduction of New Yankee Stadium to cause a massive spike this year.
by KindredSprites on Sep 21, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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