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Jose Bautista Likes To Pull His Balls

Jose Bautista is having an all-time unexpected, unexplainable, unrealistic season much like Brady Anderson and his 50 homer campaign. Today Bautista launched his 39th and 40th homers of the season with his identical yank swing out to left field. In fact, of all the highlights i have seen of his homers this year, all of them were pulled to left field. Looking up his Hit Tracker page, Bautista has in fact hit every home run to the left of dead center field. You would think pitchers would just pitch him on the outside corner forcing him to hit the other way, but i don't have 50 years of professional baseball experience like a Lou Piniella for instance. (Too early?)

In fact, only 3 of Bautista's 99 career home runs have gone the other way. That's very Rob Deer of you Jose Bautista

Home run results from 2009

Hittrackeronline.com is the resource most baseball analysts use when they need to know anything related to home runs. Distance, speed, trajectory, wind...it's all provided for you for every home run hit during the entire season. So let's look at some of the fun facts from the season

• The longest home run of the season was hit on the last weekend of the season, by Wladimir Balentien, at an astounding 495 feet. That would barely clear the fence at Citi Field
• Speaking of Citi field, there were 5 stadiums that allowed less homers per game, though dont tell that to David Wright who's average distance went up 3 feet, yet hit 23 fewer home runs
• The most difficult stadium to homer in this year was Busch Stadium, which is strange considering the home run leader, Albert Pujols, plays in that stadium. 414 foot average doesnt care about dimensions.
• Since 2005, David Eckstein has averaged more feet on his home runs than Dustin Pedroia. Sure, Pedroia hits more of them, but most are just over the short green monster. In fact, Pedroia OPSed 133 less points on the road. Maybe this blog needs a new writer named Dustin "MVP" Pedroia
• The new Yankee Stadium was by far the best homer park at nearly 3 per game compared to just 2 last year and 2.3 in 2007.
• Mark Reynolds hit the longest home run in 3 different stadiums and averaged a crazy 420 feet on the season. And he struck out line 220 times
• 2nd straight year no one in the AL hit 40 homers, and no one in baseball has hit 50 since 2007. Bring back the roids!
• Braden Looper gave up 39 homers, but who cares about the pitchers. Wake me up when Eric Milton comes back from surgery and give up back to back 40 homer seasons the way he did in '04 and '05