My Mostly Pointless Year of “Gonna Go Yard Here”

Zachary Rymer
Nov 1 · 3 min read
Screenshot courtesy of Major League Baseball on Twitter

If you’re gonna be on social media, you gotta have shtick. Mine is being hilariously bad at predicting home runs in Major League Baseball games.

To find out just how bad I was at it this season, I rounded up the numbers.

For starters, MLB hitters launched an awful lot of home runs in 2019. There were a record 6,776 homers in the regular season, plus…

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