Any Park is HR park for Stanton. He played in Miami one of the worst, HR hitting Parks. What's his splits compared to RHP?
Last edited by OH FOY!; 01-02-2018 at 11:16 AM.
Fenway is absolutely a RH hitters HR park. It’s death to lefties for power.
Every hitter hits line drives. Every hitter also hits fly balls. RH hitters will, on average, hit more fly balls to LF than lefties would. Fenway is a place where a fly ball to LF has a better chance to leave the park or hit the wall than it would in other parks where similar hits would be outs. I get the doubles nonsense. But Fenway has also claimed its share of cans of corn to LCF and turned them into HRs
The bottom line is, there are a lot more doubles hit at Fenway than at other parks, on average. There are also fewer home runs hit at Fenway than average.
The doubles increase is more pronounced than the home run reduction, and therefore it's a hitter's park in general. But the misconception has often been that it's a hitter's park because of balls going over the wall. It's actually all the balls that go off the wall.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
Yankee Stadium has the crazy short porch in right, but it's deep in left and centre.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
Absolutely? Not really. You should look at the numbers before you make bold statements like that.
Home HRs last year (Away):
RHBs
10 HRam (13)
8 Betts (16)
4 Vaz (1)
4 Nunez (4)
4 Pedey (3)
4 Young (3)
4 Bogey (6)
1 Marrero (3)
Total by RHBs: H39/A49 (10 more AWAY!)
LHBs:
10 Moreland (12)
7 Beni (13)
6 Devers (4)
6 JBJ (11)
Total by LHBs: H29/A40 (11 more away)
Switch Hitters:
3 Leon (4)
2 Pablo (2)
Total: H5/A6
I don't have the breakdown of PAs by RHBs vs LHBs at home vs away, but overall, RHBs had 3704 PAs and LHBs had 2336 PAs.
RHBs 90 HRs per 3704 PAs (2.4%)
LHBs 78 HRs per 2336 PAs (3.3%)
2003-2017 HRs
Home: 1333 in 47,075 PAs (2.8%)
Away: 1486 in 43,036 PAs (3.6%)
H/A HRs
221/262 Ortiz
97/103 Manny
73/67 Pedey
65/68 Youk
Pitchers pitch lefty and righty batters much differently in Fenway than other parks.