Jaffe: A quick comparison of historical KBO and MLB trends
From SABR member Jay Jaffe at FanGraphs on May 21, 2020:
As I’ve found in my recent attempts to write about the Korea Baseball Organization, gathering statistics often requires a cross-site scramble, and historical information and context isn’t easy to come by. With that in mind, and particularly with the wide year-to-year fluctuation in that league’s home run rate occurring at the same time that balls have been soaring out of the park at record rates here in the States, I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together some quick comparisons to the trends we’ve seen in MLB.
Read the full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-quick-comparison-of-historical-kbo-and-mlb-trends/
Originally published: May 22, 2020. Last Updated: May 22, 2020.