“All 14 of Upton's home runs have traveled more than 400
feet, including two of the seven longest hit in the NL this season. He’s hit
nearly half of the Atlanta Braves’ 400+ foot homers at Turner Field this year,
despite having just 11% of his team’s at-bats. Upton's home runs have been measured at an
average of 427.4 feet, the longest of any player with multiple home runs. That
exceeds the MLB average home run distance (397.3) by over 30 feet.”
As it stands right now, Upton has the longest average HR
distance of any player since hittrackeronline.com began tracking the stat in
2006. Just to show that it’s not a
fluke, the 3rd place honors belong to him as well, with a 423.6 ft
average HR distance from his 2011 season.
The list contains a few other names you may have heard of: Josh Hamilton,
Matt Holliday (a few times), Mark Reynolds, and some guy named Barry
Bonds.
Meanwhile, our old friend Martin Prado is hitting 232/283/326 for Arizona, and somewhere, Kevin Towers is staring at an 8x10 of himself and Justin at a charity golf tournament, weeping quietly as Tom Petty's "Wildflowers" plays softly in the background.
(Thanks to ESPN and Hit Tracker Online for providing statistical assistance)
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