This is the continuation of a weekly stats column to examine how this year’s Royals compare to the 2015 World Series champions. All numbers through Tuesday’s game.
Chris Young is allowing 3.73 home runs per nine innings, which is a number that has a chance to be historic.
I searched Fangraphs back to 1871 — 25,771 pitchers in all — to see who had the highest home-run rate in a season with at least 40 innings pitched. Young is No. 1 on the list at 3.73, with Brian Matusz in a distant second at 3.