It's the same old story.

It's the same old game.

How about, how about, try to be the same.

Hello and welcome to episode 920 of Effectively Wild Tea Daily Podcasts from baseball

perspective presented by Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

Hello.

Anything you care to discuss today?

Nope.

I think we'll probably just do a quick one as we're recording a little later than usual.

And this is something that we have touched on before, but it seems to be a story that's

gaining more and more attention.

So I figured this would be a good time to check in on it.

Namely, home runs.

Everyone's writing about home runs these days.

Everyone has noticed that baseball players are hitting lots of home runs these days.

And it really is possibly even an unprecedented number of home runs.

It's not just an increased relative to last season or to recent seasons when offense

was down and home runs were down relative to the PD era, the home run era.

But we're back up now to really the all time heights of home run hitting.

And by my calculations, last month, June was the all time home runniest month I think

ever in majorly history going by home runs on contact, which defining contact as just

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