The home run was an undeniable trend across baseball in 2015. Nine players left the yard 40 times, while 11 more cracked at least 30 homers. The last time the league boasted that many 30-homer hitters was in ’12 when there were 27. 2006 was the last season with at least nine players hitting 40 bombs, when there were 11. Power was back in a big way in ’15, and not a thing has changed in the early going this season.
The first week of the season produced 196 home runs, or 2.28 per game, and no, Trevor Story did not hit all of them.