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So here’s your mystery: Over the last six days, the ball is flying better than it has all year and on par with how well it flew in 2024. At the same time, we’ve had a week of offense that makes 1968 look like 1998. It’s certainly possible that it’s a six-day, small-sample fluke, but the way in which drag went one way and offense the other at the exact same time, at a point in the calendar when production should be rising, is peculiar.
