 With over a month of the regular season remaining at that date, many speculated that Balentien could break the Nippon Professional Baseball league season record.The record of 55 home runs in a single season was originally set by Sadaharu Oh in 1964 and later tied by Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera.A "Coco Meter" was added to Tokyo Swallows homepage so that fans could track his progress through the remainder of the season.