Fun fact about Prince Fielder's homers
by battlekow on May 10, 2009 12:14 AM CDT
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PrintWhat I'm more interested in, however, is the height of his home runs. His home run on May 6th off Reds shortstop Paul Janish (video) reached its apex 164 feet from the ground, again far exceeding any other Brewer homer this year.
What's especially fun is that he also has the Brewers' lowest home run this year, the laser down the right-field line he hit off Astros closer Jose Valverde on April 25th (video).
Now, how do these stack up against MLB as a whole? Turns out Fielder's are within two feet, and surely the margin of error, of both the highest and lowest home runs in all of baseball (inside-the-park jobs naturally excepted from the latter category). The man is truly superlative.
HitTracker's data goes back to 2005, and the highest home run they've tracked in those 4+ season, by a good ten feet, also belongs to a (then-)Brewer, though it's not Fielder. On May 24th, Carlos Lee launched a ball off our old friend Brandon Claussen that went 189 feet vertically, which is about as far as Jason Kendall's fly balls go horizontally.
Home runs are cool.
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Also at Hittracker
it gets complicated, but there’s an explanation of the bizarre meteorological effects that can cause an otherwise routine popup to become a home run, thus explaining Counsell’s last night.
Also, cheese.
So you are saying it wasn't due to his hitting power
and was instead due to a bizarre meteorological effect? How dare you! You better watch out, next time the Crew plays in NY C.C. is going to hunt you down and give you a wet-willy.
BCB, the preferred above replacement level sarcasm supplier.
by MadJimiBrewha on May 10, 2009 1:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Any idea
what the height was of the grand slam that Reed Johnson stole from Prince? That was a moonshot…
-ajs
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