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Originally Posted by actionjackson
Awesome on the league wide stats thing. I can't remember how I stumbled across that or if somebody else did the stumbling and relayed the info to me. Might've been David Watts actually, but my memory of it is kinda fuzzy. Whatever the case may be, I'm just glad we have a way of getting the type of stats output that we want. I love avoiding deadball and bazookaball with numbers that feel a lot more balanced to me.
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Feel my pain. I became a BIG baseball fan, more than 50 years ago. For decades, I could tell you who hit 50+ homers in a year..the player, the amount, and the year.
Just one, single player, just one time, hit more than 50 homers from 1961 all the way to 1977. I liked it like that.
Bazookaball, as you describe it, is the greatest scandal in American sports history, and it will forever tarnish the game. 500 homers is no longer a guaranteed HoF career.