After finishing the research for all 30 teams for the 2021 baseball season, I’ll swing back to the average hit rate stat I use for a reference to help determine the direction of a player in home runs.
Slugging percentage has been the standard for many years in baseball to show the direction of a player delivering home runs. Last year the major-league average for slugging percentage was .418 (.435 in 2019 and .409 in 2018). This number is hard to translate as to where a player stands in his development of power. For the most part, a fantasy owner will think a .