Juan Pierre hit 18 homeruns in his career. Do you know who also hit that many? Cy Young and Madison Bumgarner. Unlike Young and Bumgarner, Pierre wasn't a pitcher. He was an outfielder who relied on his legs rather than his bat. His lack of homeruns over a 14 year long MLB career lead me to think that he sits alone as baseball's anti-homerun king.
For those wondering, the chart in the thumbnail plots Homerun to Fly Ball Ratio on the X-axis, and Ground Ball % on the Y-axis.
Also, the Homerun Value metric is kinda flawed in that players from older eras generally got paid way less than they do now. That's why you see all the data points hugging the X-axis on the chart at 0:10.
0:00 Introduction
1:54 Juan Pierre
4:31 Ground Balls
5:59 Longevity
8:25 Home run hitters drive Cadillacs
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15 июн 2024
