Valid points for sure. I guess what it comes down to, with respect to our team specifically, is do those HR’s hit for outs really affect the outcome of our games? If we were losing games because of hitting too many HR’s for outs I’m sure there would be adjustments made.

I remember when you used to have to break a bat in when first bought so you had game bats and bats that needed to be broken in, or the bat walls were so stiff/dense they took 100-200 swings before they’d loosen up. We’d always break out the dense bats when out of HR’s back in the day. You weren’t cutting or miss-hitting a ball out for a HR with that bat technology.