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Bloomberg Sports: The Prince's Pop

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The first thing most analysts will look for when examining a power loss is the percentage of home runs per fly balls hit. Fielder's HR/FB% is currently a tick more than 17%. This is lower than expected when compared to his career figure of 20.1%. Even when one breaks Fielder's rates down on a seasonal basis, it shows that this is a low rate of homers per balls in the air: 2006: 15.8% 2007: 23.9% 2008: 18.2% 2009: 23.1%