Why so many LOOOOONG Home Runs?

[AceKing]

Every. Single. Game.  Our guys are giving up moonshots.  

What happened to the Secret Sauce?

[Hank Scorpio]

We have a tax accountant on the mound today.

[byrdz]

Didn't Santander hit one onto Eutaw? I think it's just the way the balls are flying this season.

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[El Gordo]

Long HR? There has been one 500 ft. HR this year. Babe Ruth hit 49 500 + ft HR in his career.

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, El Gordo said:

Long HR? There has been one 500 ft. HR this year. Babe Ruth hit 49 500 + ft HR in his career.

Never heard that one before.   Source?

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

Long HR? There has been one 500 ft. HR this year. Babe Ruth hit 49 500 + ft HR in his career.

Measured after they stopped rolling.

[El Gordo]

21 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Never heard that one before.   Source?

Bill Jenkinson baseball researcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs

[El Gordo]

23 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Measured after they stopped rolling.

No .Based on combination of film, newspaper accounts and stadium diagrams..

[Babypowder]

4 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

No .Based on combination of film, newspaper accounts and stadium diagrams..

Sounds accurate. 

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

Bill Jenkinson baseball researcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs

I like the one that supposedly went between 600-650 feet.  Seems realistic.

Counterpoint-

https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/news/a28423/aaron-judge-longest-possible-home-run/

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Consider Nathan's ideal home run, hit with 120-mph exit velocity at a 26-degree launch angle. If Giancarlo Stanton hit that ball on a 70-degree day, at sea level, with no wind and 50 percent relative humidity, then Nathan's calculations show the ball will travel 492 feet.

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Now think of the perfect home run on the perfect day. Go to Denver, where the air density is lower, and make it a hot day, which decreases air density even more. Then add a small breeze of 5 mph blowing out. "That is the perfect storm," Nathan says. On this day, his perfect home run flies 560 feet.

 

[AceKing]

Longest ever at Camden.  Thanks Aaron Brooks.

[OsEatAlEast]

Well either we didn't get our shipment of juiced balls or we didn't get our shipment of major league ballplayers.

[TonySoprano]

474'  Past Earl's statue.

 

[Jagwar]

1 hour ago, TonySoprano said:

474'  Past Earl's statue.

 

They have to put one of those Eutaw street metal baseballs out there. It would be the only one there, correct?