One of the Rays' announcers was just talking about the Marlins and their home run prowess, but then lamented their lack of "small ball". He went on to say that teams that hit 200 or more homers don't do well in the playoffs. He seemed to be hinting that home runs have a negative correlation with winning. I was of course skepitical and went to baseball-reference .com and found that 5 of the last 10 WS winners hit 200 or more HRs. Another thing this guy said was the Yankees stopped winning WS after they started hitting 200+ HRs a year: 2 of the Yankees' 4 WS winning teams since 1996 hit 200+ HRs, including arguably their (and the?) best team ever, the '98 squad. Do announcers just make this stuff up? Don't they have people that do research?
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