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Home Runs Per Hits Over Time

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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:


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Note the recent trend. Neat!

 

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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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Good ol' Mark Reynolds.

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by Jacob Peterson on Oct 20, 2011 12:03 PM EDT reply actions  

Awesome graphic

For the record, I’ve done this tons of times in video games. Think I might have topped 50% with David Ortiz in MVP 2005.

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by Lewie Pollis on Oct 20, 2011 1:05 PM EDT reply actions  

Thanks Lewie.

This reminds me of my 112-0 scores in Super Tecmo Bowl.

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 20, 2011 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

About that trend

If you view the 1992-2005 as the steroid era, perhaps that spike is just a bump and the Hr/hit rate is returning to roughly the rate it was before 1992. It’s too early to tell…

by siggian on Oct 20, 2011 1:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Great stuff.

Mark McGwire: wooooooooow.

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by Julian Levine on Oct 21, 2011 2:07 AM EDT reply actions  

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