I’m just going to make a declaration here: the 2019 baseballs are juiced.. and the Atlanta Braves are taking advantage of that.
What’s interesting is that the baseball has probably been juiced for the past 3 seasons as well, but until this year it hadn’t gotten as much notice.
Allow, please, Exhibit A: number of batters hitting 20+ homers in a season.
- 2009 – 87
- 2010 – 77
- 2011 – 68
- 2012 – 79
- 2013 – 70
- 2014 – 57
- 2015 – 64
- 2016 – 111
- 2017 – 117
- 2018 – 100
As for 2019, please allow a conservative projection:
At this point in the 2019 season, several teams have played their 70th games.