June 16, 201015 yr If you have never been to hittrackeronline.com, I advise you do. It's a pretty cool site that tracks homerun distances. Anyway, the Sox have been hitting a lot of HR, but not many bombs. And the sad thing is, look at who is at the top of our "distance HRs"..... Mark Kotsay - 439 feet (5/17) Brent Lillibridge - 428 (6/9) Then we finally get to Rios and Konerko who matched each other with 421 shots..... and then.... Alexei Ramirez - 420 feet Donny Lucy - 419 feet Nothing to make of this, it's just sort of interesting that 4 of our top 6 furthest HR were hit by non-HR hitters and guys that barely weigh more than 150 pounds. PS: Jason Heyward has the furthest HR this year at 476 that he hit on opening day vs. the Cubs in his first major league AB.
June 16, 201015 yr QUOTE (black jack @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) How long was Rio's in Wrigley? Thought that was a bomb? 407 (true distance) to dead left, that is most definitely a bomb.
June 17, 201015 yr QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) Thome hit a lot of bombs. You could say that his game winner vs. Minny in the playoff game in '08 was Lillibridge-esque.
June 17, 201015 yr It has to have something with the philosophy of acquiring players who hit line drives/doubles who will turn into HR's at our ballpark Teahen/Rios/CQ ?
June 17, 201015 yr This reminds me of the 2005 NLCS, where Albert Pujols hit the hardest home run I've seen in a long time.
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