Home Run Tracking

Detail of Big Papi's home run 5/1 vs. Yankees (from HitTracker.com)

Thanks to Lookout Landing for sharing the fun that is HitTracker.com. I just spent the last hour playing with statistics of 2006 Red Sox home runs:

• Dustin Mohr has the longest Red Sox home run this season at 454 feet (4/12 at Fenway Park).

• David Ortiz has the longest home run when the atmospheric influences of wind, temperature and altitude are removed. The blast he hit off Mike Myers of the Yankees on 5/1 was estimated at 460 feet.

• Ortiz hit the shortest home run at 345 feet (4/13 at Fenway Park).

• Ortiz hit the home run with the fastest calculated speed off the bat at 120.7 mph (5/1 at Fenway Park).

• Ortiz hit the home run with the slowest calculated speed off the bat at 98.2 mph (4/13 at Fenway Park).

• Ortiz hit the home run which reached the highest point above field level at 141 feet (4/3 at Ameriquest Field) and also the home run with the lowest apex at 56 feet (4/13 at Fenway Park).

• Ortiz's home run on 4/13 had an elevation angle of 46.8 degrees when it left the bat while the home run that Trot Nixon hit on 4/5 in Texas left the bat at an angle of 25.2 degrees.
  

• Manny Ramirez is currently considered MLB's "Golden Sledgehammer" because he has the highest average standard home run distance in the league at 418.8 feet.
  

Fun. Fun.

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