In baseball when a player is traded from american league to national why do they lose their home runs

Question

it could be both ways doesn't have to be from american to national it could be from national to american.

do the home runs still count in their all time totals

Answer 1

I never understood this myself. yet as I have mentioned numerous times on these borads as well, is that Sabathia, since coming into NL, doesnt have his wins carried over, but his Strikeouts were until recently. Does not make sense to me. Or perhaps they finally realized their error once again and removed him. However if you can back track and locate the list from when CC came to Brewers, as he went on to record his 2nd-3rd win he was still listed as 1 of the 3 top Strikeout leaders combined from both leagues. Though a player doesnt lose those stats for personal accounts, career wise, I dont see why they shoudl lose them during the season. Eh, sometimes I just dont get baseball and how they do things.

Answer 2

They do not lose them at all, but their stats are looked at from the time they play for their new team on simply to show how they are performing with that new team.

Answer 3

Because they transfer leagues. Just like when a pitcher gets traded from the AL to the NL he lossed all of his wins and c**p

Answer 4

They lose everything because they are transferring the league because it isn't fair for the players that have been in that league because of the difference in pitching. Also it is the same with pitching stats get erased becausee of the difference in hitting. With the DH and that.

Answer 5

Hmm I didn't know that.

Answer 6

They don't lose any of their stats and any thing they've do before their trade still counts towards their career stats.

But, as far as their new league is concerned, they start out just the same as any other player who has yet to play a game during the current season.

Since they have not been regularly playing against the same competition under the same conditions as the other players in their new league, it makes little sense to allow them to carry over their statistics from the other league and might be seen as unfair by some.

Answer 7

The home runs still count toward their all time total, but they don't count toward the team total or the league total.

When they say "league leader" they have to have recorded all of their stats in that league. The stats are restarted to avoid confusion.

Answer 8

at first it seems like they hit less homeruns but after a year or 2 they his as many or more homeruns then before. they dont hit as many at first because they dont know the pitchers they are facing they dont have experience hitting does pitcher.

Answer 9

Yes they do.