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Tico,  the "fangraphs" data indicate there were 41% more home runs in 2000 than in 1993.

Conversely, there were only 5.4% more "contacts in 2000 than 1993.

That means, I guess, there were many more home runs per contact in 2000??  That the increase in the percentage of HR/Contacts appears to be small (1%) is only because of the very large amount of contacts compared to home runs. It's a math trick of the sort employed by politicians daily.

Why complicate things?  There were 41% more home runs in 2000 than there were in 1993. That would be the equivalent of batting averages rising from .250 to .350 in seven years.