Will Cal be #1?

[D-train]

I'd like to see him hit 63, to beat Judge, Maris and Ruth.

Fuck Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds......Juice monsters. If Maris was asterisked, those three should be triple asterisked.

[D-train]

Cal became the first human in MLB history to hit 20 HRs from both sides of the plate.

Not surprised that Mantle never came close to doing it even though he was a better hitter right-handed. The old Yankee Stadium was 402 feet to straightaway left field and 460 to left-center. Utterly ridiculous that they built it that way and left it like that until the mid-1970s.

Oh yeah that's right! Polo grounds was also nuts.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Cal became the first human in MLB history to hit 20 HRs from both sides of the plate.

Not surprised that Mantle never came close to doing it even though he was a better hitter right-handed. The old Yankee Stadium was 402 feet to straightaway left field and 460 to left-center. Utterly ridiculous that they built it that way and left it like that until the mid-1970s.

Oh yeah that's right! Polo grounds was also nuts.

Baseball would be so much better if every ballpark was at least 350 down the lines and 425 to center. More balls in play requiring skilled fielding and baserunning. Home runs are boring as fuck.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Cal became the first human in MLB history to hit 20 HRs from both sides of the plate.

yeah, was going to point that out, its interesting that balance, his home runs are also even between home and away

His home run rate batting right-handed is 1 in 7.85 ABs and batting lefty is 1 in 11.17 ABs. He bats way more from the left side though.

[Bil522]

Not surprised that Mantle never came close to doing it even though he was a better hitter right-handed. The old Yankee Stadium was 402 feet to straightaway left field and 460 to left-center. Utterly ridiculous that they built it that way and left it like that until the mid-1970s.

Oh yeah that's right! Polo grounds was also nuts.

Baseball would be so much better if every ballpark was at least 350 down the lines and 425 to center. More balls in play requiring skilled fielding and baserunning. Home runs are boring as fuck.

Wow!! I actually agree with you...this might be a first

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Were you the one who suggested having no outfield wall but just a contnuous field? That would be the best case but MLB would never approve such a ballpark. It would be interesting to see how deep the outfielders would play...

[Donn Beach]

Were you the one who suggested having no outfield wall but just a contnuous field? That would be the best case but MLB would never approve such a ballpark. It would be interesting to see how deep the outfielders would play...

I brought it up, its how the game was originally played. It began in open fields, not stadiums. At the time nobody seemed particularly interested in the idea. I don't know about best but i thought it was interesting trying to imagine the game without walls. Back then the ball didn't carry so it probably wasn't the issue I envision it being for outfielders today, would it incread or decrease offense? You wouldn't have as many homeruns but you would still have them. You would be trading balls over the fence for inside the park home runs as well as more offense since outfielders would have to play further back. That's the deal with Coors isn't it, what generates offense is really the distance of the fences