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(09-19-2017, 02:24 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Fair enough, I can only go off external appearances having never met any. I guess it's all that added with a suspicion of how players in the second half of their career come to Toronto and suddenly become HR mashers.

Russell Martin with 1 20+ HR season age 23-31, 2 from age 32-33 (and hurt this year)
Encarnacion a 15-20 HR hitter, turns 29 and racks off 6 straight 35-40 HR seasons.
Bautista a 15 HR hitter, turns 29 and hits 54 and then 43 HRs.
Michael Saunders never hit 20 HR in his career, turns 29 and hits 24 HR.
Justin Smoak never hit more than 20 HR in his career, turns 30 and hits 38 HR (and counting).
Donaldson a 25 HR hitter, turns 29 and hits 41 and 37 HRs.

If it was just 1-2 guys you ignore it as just breaking out or something. But when everyone seems to become HR hitters when they are 30 years old in Toronto, you question it. Lol

Hitter's Park

lol its true; Rogers Centre (at the time, Skydome) was the best Hitter's Park in the league, from 1989-1993 (when Mile High Opened) and has always been a great place for Home Runs; when the roof is open, the breeze always comes off the lake (blows from home to the outfield), thus a lot of balls just carry out.

In the case of Bautista and Smoak, they both revamped their approcahes at the plate (ESPECIALLY Bautista); Jays did the same with Roy Halladay in 2001, turned him from the worst ERA in league history, with at least 50 innings or whatever, into the future HOF that he is.