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Home Runs Per Hits Over Time

by Justin Bopp on Oct 20, 2011 12:00 PM EDT in Visuals Above Replacement

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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Good ol' Mark Reynolds.

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

Good

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by Dave Gershman on Oct 20, 2011 12:26 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

"what steroid era?"

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 20, 2011 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

what's a steroid?

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by Rochestie4ever on Oct 20, 2011 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions

McGwire, not McGuire

nice graphic though!

by Shi on Oct 20, 2011 5:11 PM EDT reply actions

err, thanks! fixed.

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 20, 2011 9:48 PM EDT up 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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