Wait, What!?! You mean if you change the composition of the ball, you can change the rate of home-runs? Where have I heard that before. To say nothing about the dimensions of the park?
Let's see, which would travel farther after a collision with a baseball bat -- a baseball the hardness and consistency of a cue-ball or a nerf-ball? A bean-bag? Pitchers knew and were whining as much or more about that and lowered seams (harder to throw quality breaking balls) to say nothing about Questec, than PED's, Goose Gossage (who was by then, no longer playing) notwithstanding, BWDIK?
from McCovey Chronicles:
Giants sign Kensuke Tanaka - McCovey Chronicles:
If you want the stats before that, the Baseball Cube has them, not that they're very inspiring. There are a couple of things to note, the first being that for the last two years, a new standard ball has supposedly sucked the offense out of Japanese baseball. The entire league is partying like it's 1968 in Dodger Stadium. The second thing to note is that Japanese ballparks are still a lot smaller than the parks in America, so Tanaka almost certainly doesn't have much power at all. Theriot power, as it were.
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