"Just Enough" distance home runs: warning track power boosted by juiced baseballs for shortstops in 2017.

Warning track power aided by juiced Titleist baseballs: Didi Gregorius is an example. Friday, July 28, 2017

Didi Gregorius has become something of a power hitting shortstop ...

... extraordinary improvement in Home Runs (HR) per At Bats (AB)...

ESPN Home Run Tracker!

http://www.hittrackeronline.com/glossary.php

"Just Enough" home run - Means the ball cleared the fence by less than 10 vertical feet, OR that it landed less than one fence height past the fence. These are the ones that barely made it over the fence.

"No Doubt" home run - Means the ball cleared the fence by at least 20 vertical feet AND landed at least 50 feet past the fence. These are the really deep blasts.

"Plenty" home run - Everything else, except for the 2 above Homerun types

Lucky Homer - A home run that would not have cleared the fence if it has been struck on a 70-degree, calm day...

The league averages for 2006 were 27% JE, 55% PL and 18% ND.
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50% of the 2017 Home Runs (HR) by Didi Gregorius have had "just enough" distance. Let's look at the top HR hitting SS in 2017.

2017, Played 75% of games at SS, (requiring HR>=14 ), sorted by greatest Home Runs

Rk	Player	HR	OPS+	Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	GDP	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	Pos
1	Carlos Correa	20	166	2017	22	HOU	AL	84	375	325	64	104	18	1	67	44	4	71	2	0	4	10	0	0	.320	.400	.566	.966	*6
2	Corey Seager	18	134	2017	23	LAD	NL	94	405	351	65	103	24	0	53	51	4	93	2	0	1	9	3	1	.293	.385	.516	.901	*6/H
3	Didi Gregorius	16	117	2017	27	NYY	AL	78	328	309	44	95	14	0	49	13	1	46	2	0	3	5	2	1	.307	.336	.508	.844	*6/H
4	Francisco Lindor	15	102	2017	23	CLE	AL	99	450	406	56	109	29	2	48	36	3	59	2	4	2	6	5	1	.268	.330	.461	.790	*6
5	Elvis Andrus	14	106	2017	28	TEX	AL	98	427	402	61	116	24	3	56	23	0	71	1	0	1	17	20	7	.289	.328	.468	.796	*6/D
6	Trevor Story	14	78	2017	24	COL	NL	87	332	299	42	70	14	1	47	32	1	116	1	0	0	6	4	0	.234	.310	.428	.738	*6/H

Correa has not played since July 17 because of injury. He last homered July 9, 2017 when he hit two HR in Toronto.

Here are the top three HR hitting shortstops:

2017	JE	PL	ND	Tot	JE	PL	ND
Correa	25.0%	50.0%	25.0%	20	5	10	5
Seager	44.4%	50.0%	5.6%	18	8	9	1
Gregorius	50.0%	43.8%	12.5%	16	8	7	2

Seager may be benefiting from juiced baseballs even more than Gregorius. What would these players be worth if the balls returned to be reasonable? How would they do hitting non-Titleist baseballs? Their JE HR would become outs or doubles.