MLB Home Run Numbers Down Dramatically

This ESPN article about the decline of the home run in baseball in the last few years and most dramatically this year is shocking. The statistics are amazing and very telling. The only thing more appalling than the remarkable decline in home runs is the reason for that decline, which I do not think I have to explain to you.

Jayson Stark writes:

If everything continues along at its current pace, about 600 fewer home runs will be hit this year than last year – the third-biggest drop in the expansion era (behind only 1987-88 and 1977-78).

Wow.