Cal Raleigh is having the best home-run hitting season by a catcher to this point, ever.
But the Seattle Mariners star could actually have more homers.
Check out this stat from MLB Network's Sarah Langs:
"An incredible part of Raleigh’s 29 homers? He’s had 4 home runs prevented by wind this year, tied for most in MLB, per Statcast So he should have even more !!!"
Modern analytics are the best.
We live in a world where we know how wind has impacted a players' home runs, and non-home runs.
And apparently Raleigh is getting robbed by Mother Nature.
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Clearly, she can't hold him back too much. He's still got 29 homers by mid-June.
But imagine if she had given him a jet stream a few more times. He'd be on pace for the American League single-season record if he was up in the low-to-mid 30s right now.
Raleigh certainly doesn't need the aid of wind to hit the ball out of the ballpark, but it'd be nice if his big swings weren't getting diminished by wind blowing right at him.
Keep an eye on those flags when Raleigh hits. If they ever turn around for him, he could go on an even more torrid pace.
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