This is inspired by a conversation from yesterday's graphic about Nelson Cruz where I noticed he was hitting a home run nearly 1/4th of the time (23%, actually). Turns out, that's not so unique (h/t Julian Levine). In fact, players have hit at least 23% or greater home runs per hits at least 555 times!
Here's the fun part. While it's not that unique of an occurrence, the HR/H phenomena is happening more frequently:
Note the recent trend. Neat!
For fun, here are the players that did it in 2011:
| Player | HR | H | % |
| Mark Reynolds | 37 | 118 | 31% |
| Jose Bautista | 43 | 155 | 28% |
| Curtis Granderson | 41 | 153 | 27% |
| Mark Teixeira | 39 | 146 | 27% |
| Evan Longoria | 31 | 118 | 26% |
| Dan Uggla | 36 | 140 | 26% |
| Carlos Pena | 28 | 111 | 25% |
| Mike Stanton | 34 | 135 | 25% |
| Josh Willingham | 29 | 120 | 24% |
| Ryan Howard | 33 | 141 | 23% |
| Nelson Cruz | 29 | 125 | 23% |
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