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With that in mind, what can we do to fix the HR total? What are some viable ways to do it? Let’s take a look at some different solutions.
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Maybe it’s the way they teach hitting, but I can’t know that for certain.
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Getting into why they struggle to hit homers would be too much for a single Rockpile and also likely be beyond what Baseball Savant can tell me, so we can only speculate.
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Part of that is the difficulty the Rox have on the road, where they’ve hit just 74, tied for the third worst mark in MLB, but it goes deeper than that, because they don’t even crack the top 10 in home round-trippers. You don’t need me to tell you that playing half your games at Coors Field and being painfully average at hitting balls over the fence is a bad thing, particularly in this era of baseball where a huge chunk of runs are scored on homers. You know what else is not good? The fact that since the full-season introduction of the juiced ball in 2016, the Rockies’ average HR rank is 16th. If that feels like a low total and/or spot on the rankings, that’s because it is the Rockies have almost never sunk this low when it comes to hitting the ball out of the ballpark: Let’s cut to the chase: the Colorado Rockies have hit 177 home runs this season so far with five games remaining, a total that ranks 22nd in baseball.