Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
You know what makes Frazier's shot MUCH more impressive. Not the distance, the trajectory, the wind, the park it was hit in, or even the pitcher it was hit against. It's that it was a 2 run shot and Stanton's was a solo shot. Twice as productive. Debate OVER. :O)
Stanton is definitely one of my favorite non-Reds to watch. Wish he were not a non-Red.
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What amazed me about Frazier's was that he was a bit off balanced and out in front when he hit it. Not as impressive as the homer he hit with his hands literally letting go of the bat as he hit it, however.
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Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
You picked this one line out of my whole post? It's based on the fact I trust people that saw the trajectory in person to have a better estimation of it than he did. My own opinion is the ball was not on a rapid descent downward, but he definitely didn't have a better view than the ballpark estimation.
By his own admission, the lone view of the homer he has cannot know the trajectory of the ball. So his explanation only makes sense if he ignores that the person in the ballpark that did the estimation had a better view of that than he could possibly know off the camera angle. But I say based on the same view he had that there's no way it only would have traveled just over 36 feet further. I'm not challenging him on his rationale for the math, I'm saying the math is wrong because it's based on a terribly big assumption.
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I just saw Frazier's HR today. Holy craaaaaaaaaap.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
HTO has Stanton's home run at 494 when adjusting for the wind and sea level and all of that other fun jazz.
Stanton's homer was hit much, much further than Frazier's home run. It isn't even close. That ball was an absolute bomb.
I analyzed the radio call of each home run. The Marlins announcers sounded like Stanton's was further.
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