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It seems to me the problem is some people expect Maris to, on average, hit 61 home runs in a 1961 sim, yet it was a record that stood for a long time and therefore it's quite rightly considered an outlier and so it shouldn't happen very often at all. Of course someone should break it eventually, but it really shouldn't be expected to be broken in a given year, not alone by that same player in that given year. Although the 1961 expansion of both the number of games and teams certainly helped to it being broken, the record wasn't broken again in the '62, '69, '77, or '93 expansion years (it was broken in '98, another expansion year, but I think we all realize expansion didn't play the biggest factor that time).
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