The Oakland A’s had a solo homer problem in 2021.
They showed decent enough power last year, ranking middle of the pack in the majors with 199 dingers, but too often those taters came with nobody on base. They’d load the bags and strand them one inning, then come up in the next frame and go deep, frustratingly ending the whole sequence with just one run. Regardless of the extent to which it was a statistical fluke, it still happened, all year long.
- A’s 2021 solo homers: 138
- A’s 2021 non-solo HR: 61
That rate of 69% is not so nice when it’s describing a solo job.