Just before the playoffs started a rumor dropped on my Twitter timeline that Major League Baseball was considering changing the balls for the postseason. It was not from an authorized account, but the sources they noted seemed more plausible than a lot of the utter nonsense I see on Twitter. So I retweeted it and made a mental note to keep an eye on home run rates during the postseason:
I’ve thought about this tweet a few times throughout the postseason, but notably as balls that I remember just rocketing out of ballparks earlier in the season died on the warning track.