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What Are the 10 Longest Home Runs in the Statcast Era?

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Ahead of the 2025 MLB Home Run Derby, FOX Sports Research compiled the list of the 10 longest home runs in the Statcast era.
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Last week, in Part 1, I pointed out that the average exit velocity and angle of ground balls have barely changed during the Statcast era. Moreover, ground balls have become less common. So how can we say that infield defense has gotten harder? That's right: While 36.6% of all batted balls labeled as ground balls in 2015 had a launch angle of -5° or higher, that number has steadily increased, up to 42.5% last year and almost exactly the same numb…

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Fox Sports broke the news in United States on Sunday, July 6, 2025.
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