In my never-ending attempt to fill all of your free time by suggesting more and more unusual baseball stat sites, I have found one that is sure to suck you in for an extended period of time.
If you love homeruns, then www.hittrackeronline.com is the site for you. Never before has so much information about current and past homeruns existed in one place.
This site keeps numbers on every homerun hit this season and each season since 2005. Some of the more interesting things you can find here are the longest and shortest homeruns of the season, who has the longest average distance of their homeruns this year (a surprise to me, by the way - it’s a Dodger as of today), who leads the league in No Doubt homeruns, Just Enough homeruns, and Lucky homeruns. And all of this can be sorted by each team or each league.
You can also get into more detailed information such as the bat speed of all homeruns, the elevated angle of each homerun, and the apex of each homerun. So all of you physics nerds/baseball fans, this is definitely the site for you.
And then, once you are done sorting through all of that, you can switch from Hitters to Pitchers to see who has done all of the same things, given up the most HR, given up the most No Doubt HR, who has given up the longest HRs this year, etc.
Truly, this site is a time-waster to the power of 10. But one that I love.
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Coming in a couple of days: Looking at the debate concerning Adam Everett. Is he currently worth leaving in the lineup, or should he be benched?
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