Cool Site: Tater Trot Tracker

Tater Trot Tracker

I discovered this site through the B-R.com blog (which is totally awesome itself, you should read it all the time). It's part of another site called wezen-ball.com, which I've never heard of but which I plan on exploring. The Tater Trot Tracker tracks the time of each home run hit every day and then posts the shortest and longest, along with a home run of the day (yesterday's was Andre Ethier's walk off grand slam).

They also have a tracker on the right side bar of the leaders in fastest and slowest home run trots of the season. You'd naturally assume that the fastest would be inside-the-parkers, and the top two are. Aubrey Huff's inside-the-park home run, however, comes in at 5th behind both home runs hit by Adam Rosales this year. I love that Huff running as fast as he can is still slower than someone jogging out a home run.

When I saw Alex Gonzalez's name at the top of the list for slowest trotter I was a little bemused, but it turns out he missed first base and had to go back (embarrassing!) I was hoping each day would have a list of every home run hit, but no dice. I'd love to see where the Orioles are on the list (those who are actually capable of hitting home runs).

The writer did do a summary of all April home runs and created this groovy spreadsheet which shows the fastest, slowest, and average times of every player who hit a home run, and the totals by team. The fastest home run trot as of April 30th for the Orioles came from Luke Scott at 19.32 seconds, the slowest from Adam Jones at 24.61. Adam's slow trot was the slowest of the day on April 25th.

I'm definitely adding this to my daily reading list. It's just too bad this website didn't exist when Felix Pie hit his first home run as an Oriole. I'd like to see how that matched up.