WHAT’S UP, UP AND AWAY WITH THE BALL? Posted on 2 June 2019 By Carl Lemelin Posted in Balls, Baseballs, FiveThirtyEight, Homeruns, mlb, ROML, Statcast 1 Since the 2016 season, the homeruns are flying out of the parks at a rate never seen before! Are the modern balls the cause of this flyball spike?