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40 home runs at 5-foot-9: Mookie Betts is maximizing his physical potential more than any other hitter today

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Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts is on pace to hit 40 or more homers this season .

Betts would be just the fourth under-5- foot-10 player in MLB history to crack 40 homers in a season .

Willie Mays said in 1970 that pitchers are bigger today , and they throw harder.

Betts is maximizing his physical potential more than any other hitter today .

He achieves the basic goal of the game, despite playing against a cavalcade of competitors who are more physically imposing.

This season , 19% of his swings have led to balls leaving his bat at 95+ mph and an angle of 5 degrees .

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