AL EAST 2009
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This is getting ridiculous. And it's only April for heaven's sake! Was this stadium designed in a jet stream done on purpose?
With all the $$$$$ they spent on it, you bet they designed it that way!
(Chicks...and $$$$ did the longball!!!)
It may be a case of things evening out when Coors Field got the humidor.
Now, there's a new homer-happy park.
Jeter just smacked another ball out of the park. Make that 4 HR's through 5.
At this rate, A-Rod can stay on the DL for a few more months and still break Bonds HR record by the end of the year!
At this rate, A-Rod can stay on the DL for a few more months and still break Bonds HR record by the end of the year!
Paul,
you need to refresh my memory.
Was the problem at Comerica too "pitcher friendly" ?
But, they can't move the walls back, unless they take out a few rows of seats....
Whatever Jeter's single-season high for home runs is, I think he has a great shot to break it.
About this topic of hitter or pitcher friendly ballparks opening:
Comerica Park and the new Yankee Stadium have been discussed.
HD, when Jacobs Field opened back in 1994, would you say that was a hitter-riendly ballpark?
Comerica Park and the new Yankee Stadium have been discussed.
HD, when Jacobs Field opened back in 1994, would you say that was a hitter-riendly ballpark?
More hitter friendly than the cavernous Cleveland Municipal Stadium, but we have that "mini-green monster" wall in left field. That seems to have cut down on some short homers. Overall, I don't think our field is overly pitcher or hitter friendly. I like our dimensions.
Just a little. The left field fence was farther than you could see from home plate without 20/20 vision. We ended up adding seats in front of the wall, I think they moved the fence about 20-30 feet. Left Center is still Death Valley. Definitely not a hitters park.
Judging by what's happening, that may have to happen. It's starting to look like a softball field, the way the ball is leaving the yard
Fenway's rep as a hitter friendly park isn't so true any more (when the Sox installed the .406 Club behind home plate, it affected the wind patterns). I saw a stat last year about what ballparks had the most homeruns during the last ten years, Fenway was in the bottom ten.
Fenway's right field is one of the deepest in baseball (not down the line to Pesky's Pole.......that's barely 300 feet). And the left field wall ,while extremely close to home plate, takes probably more homers away that it gives (a lot of line drives catches the wall while the ball is still ascending), turning homers in other parks into singles at Fenway.
Now, if you're a lefty slap hitter, ala Wade Boggs, Fenway is a great place to hit!
Fenway's right field is one of the deepest in baseball (not down the line to Pesky's Pole.......that's barely 300 feet). And the left field wall ,while extremely close to home plate, takes probably more homers away that it gives (a lot of line drives catches the wall while the ball is still ascending), turning homers in other parks into singles at Fenway.
Now, if you're a lefty slap hitter, ala Wade Boggs, Fenway is a great place to hit!
His batting averages were mind-boggling compared to nowadays.
.361, .368, .357, .363, .366.
Contrast that with last year's batting champ- Joe Mauer- who hit .328.
