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It's 347 feet down the left field line, 350 down the right field line and 415 to center field from home plate, though the deepest part of the park is in right-center at 424 feet. It is estimated that a home run hit 400 feet in sea-level Yankee Stadium would travel about 408 feet in Atlanta and as far as 440 feet in the Mile High City. Over the past two seasons, Citi Field has seen the seventh-fewest runs scored (1,239), the 12th-fewest home runs hit (304) and a slugging percentage (.372) that is the eighth-lowest in the game. Its 2022 homer park factor was the lowest in a decade, so this would be on the lower end of its typical finish. It is just games played on or before May 31 for both 2019 and 2021, yes. Odrisamer Despaigne (3) Average ERA:3.66 (10th in MLB from 2012-13). #17 - Rogers Centre (Blue Jays) - 98.4 Overall Park Factor, 88.9 Fly Ball (23rd), 104 Home Run (11th). Its homer park factor has been over two standard deviations above league average in six of the last seven seasons, posting an MLB high in all seven. This is about as high as this park will ever be seen on this list. *All non-ESPN Park Factor statistics courtesy of, explained his goals to MLB.com's Corey Brock. Lowest mark is 145.0, less than two standard deviations above average only once. No, I'm a California resident looking for the California Consumer Privacy Act form. #13 - Nationals Park (Nationals) - 99.3 Overall Park Factor, 100.5 Fly Ball (15th), 103 Home Run (13th). Typically, the Brewers home park is going to finish in the top half of this list. Pitchers arent any better. Players know what's fair and what's not. Dylan Covey (12) Earlier this season, I pointed to a dramatic shift in the behavior of Busch, which has consistently been an extreme pitchers park. Finally, his Zeile projection of 67 runs, 16 homers, 67. I did attempt to examine the impacts, if any, of these exit velocity changes on home run rates, and there was a moderate correlation (r-squared of 0.28) that is important to keep in mind. MLB. OK, that's notreallya spoiler if you checked out our rankings ofMLB's most hitter-friendly ballparkslast week, but for those who missed it, take my word for it. The Rockies, Diamondbacks, Mariners, Mets, and Red Sox already had humidors in their stadiums pre-2021, but which five teams are new to that list has yet to be disclosed. Theres significant overlap in this section with the run-scoring amplifying parks, with Great American Ball Park and Coors Field flip-flop spots at the top. Additionally, the interaction between outfield space and outfield wall height may also play a role, as could climate and, more specifically, weather so far this season. Ill bet Met fans would rather have prevailed in the opposite race. Globe Life Field and Target Field stand out from the pack, too, due to bumping up runs with park factors of 1.013 and 1.007 for runs. #29 - Petco Park (Padres) - 89.3 Overall Park Factor, 77.3 Fly Ball (30th), 99 Home Run (17th). Additionally, the parks with the most extreme factors for run-scoring and homers are also featured. Not counting openers and ranked by WAR, the White Sox rotation in 2019 (starts): Lucas Giolito (29) Citizens Bank Park is the third venue that boosts homers by more than 20%, and it slightly increases runs (1.034 park factor for runs). In addition, the winds that blow in off Lake Michigan, while unpredictable, tend to carry balls over the outstretched gloves of leaping outfielders more often than they hold balls up. 1 There is nothing exciting about strikeouts and home runs. (Video) MLB Stadiums Ranked | MLB Ballparks 2021 Updated. Enough talk, though; let's take a look at what the numbers tell us. Park factors are not affected by the quality of a team's hitters or pitchers. Even pitchers duals arent exciting anymore because they usually are the result of bad hitting and not great pitching. Devan Fink is a Contributor at FanGraphs. We tackled the more pitcher-friendly half of the 30 MLB parks yesterday, today, its to the more hitter-friendly ones. Its posted grounder park factors over 100 in 10 straight seasons, with a 122.4 mark (3rd in MLB) in 2022. 24 Unlike many of the parks discussed so far, PNC is ripe for some damage in the air, but more from yielding doubles and triples rather than home runs. How quickly, in seconds, a catcher can get the ball out The Colorado Rockies' home ballpark has an estimated area of 121,486 square feet in fair play. While symmetrically designed, Kauffman Stadium's expansive power alleys may limit home runs, but they lend themselves to an increase in other extra-base hits, more than making up for the lack of long balls that we normally find in a hitter's park. You don't currently have any notifications. #4 - Dodger Stadium (Dodgers) - 108.4 Overall Park Factor, 107.6 Fly Ball (9th), 112 Home Run (5th). Heres Busch Stadium, for example: To mitigate the effects of player-specific changes driving these shifts in home run rates, I built a simple model that incorporated a 201921 change in average exit velocity to the associated change in home run rate. For a few years there in the mid-2010s, Petco fluctuated between a hitters/pitchers park due to shifts in the marine layer, but it has been a consistent pitchers park since. But Wrigley lends itself to extra-base hits, whether it be a ball that bounces around in the outfield corners or one that gets caught in the ivy. 10 straight years with an overall park factor below 100 - but only once has it landed below 90. While the park has now posted a higher than average fly ball park factor for three straight seasons. This is ALL on the hitters. In data analyzed by Baseball Savant's Statcast from 2019-21 , the 27-year-old stadium generated 14% more offense, compared to fellow MLB ballparks, including 19% more hits, 16% more home runs, and the second most triples (behind Comerica . #25 - Target Field (Twins) - 94.8 Overall Park Factor, 82.2 Fly Ball (27th), 87 Home Run (26th). results. When we think of "hitter-friendly" ballparks, Coors Field and Yankee Stadium are often the first two that come to mind due to the tendency for fly balls to travel beyond the outfield walls and into the hands of a lucky fan. Generally, Progressive is a relatively neutral park that performed in about as pitcher-friendly a manner as possible in 2022. Our MLB Park Factors Report provides which ballparks have the biggest effect on hitting & pitching. Purely on home runs, it has battled Coors Park for the #2 spot behind Great American Ballpark for the top of the park factor chart. So far in 2014, Angel Stadium has been one of baseball's most explosive venues for offense, with no fewer than nine runs being scored in eight of the nine games that it has hosted along with an average of more than three home runs per contest. While we may not see quite as many home runs as we have in the past due to Milwaukee's improved rotation and bullpen, the offense is comingand by season's end, Miller Park's 2014 park factors will more closely resemble those that we've become accustomed to. Right-handed sluggers, like Miguel Cabrera, have taken advantage of that redesign, with the two-time defending AL MVP smacking nearly 32 percent of his 366 career home runs at Comerica. Feb 14, 2021 The renovations at Oracle Park greatly impacted offense in San Francisco. A late . The hardest place in baseball to put a run on the board, Dodger Stadium is, without question, a pitcher's paradise. The same small sample caveat applies to Marlins Park and the forthcoming Oracle Park, but some data is better than none. At the very end of this slideshow, you'll find a completely different set of rankings, one that uses a completely different ranking system. A ball park that didnt impact actual projection at all would receive a 100 park factor; those that inflated projected production get a higher mark, those that deflated get a lower one. Here, in Oakland, they're outs. How far, in feet, a runner is ranging off the bag at the It definitely takes points off your batting average. Yes, it inflates run-scoring - but it consistently deflates homer totals. 4895 Also, as you might expect, singles park factors (0.24) didnt correlate as well as other types of base hits. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Each number is set so that 100 is average for that metric, and the park-specific number is generated by looking at each batter and pitcher, controlled by handedness, and comparing the frequency of that metric in the selected park compared to the performance of those players in other parks. 2. While Nationals Park grades out as slightly hitter-friendly when it comes to scoring runs, collecting hits and legging out two-baggers, it only ranks in the top 10 in one of those categoriesdoubles (564)and just makes the cut as a pitcher-friendly venue over the past two years. From this point forward, its safe to say that the remaining parks clearly functioned as hitter-friendly in 2022. Coming off a four-game series at hitting-friendly Great American Ball Park, during which he went a combined 5-for-14 (.357 BA) with four runs scored and two RBI, Marsh will now enjoy a seven-game . Statcast refers to the spin that contributes to movement 9 to No. I would venture to say that almost no one sees Dodger Stadium as a hitters park, and while this years overall park factor does mark a high over the past decade, there are some truly hitter-friendly aspects to the place. Anything below 88mph is considered 0. So it's come as somewhat of a surprise that he's comfortably slugged above .500 for much of the 2021 season, split between Double-A and Triple-A. A major limiting factor this time around was an odd MLB-low 77.3 grounder park factor that really looks like a one-off aberration. Because there's no perfect method of figuring out whether a park is hitter-friendly or pitcher-friendly, and it's interesting to compare the results. Obviously, Comerica is a big home run denier. A deep center field lends itself to an increase in doubles and triples, as balls that land in the outfield gaps will bounce and rolland continue to rollas the hitter rounds the bases. and, on certain types of batted balls, Sprint Speed. But how much of an impact do certain MLB stadiums really have on a hitters performance? Though it only posted a 92 triples park factor in 2022, it had been an above average triples park (usually well above) for the previous five seasons. I agree that personnel changes are a tough confounder for park analysis to overcome. #24 - Chase Field (Diamondbacks) - 95.2 Overall Park Factor, 89.2 Fly Ball (22nd), 91 Home Run (23rd). It barely nudged scoring up with a park factor of 1.013 for runs, and it has the sixth-lowest park factor for homers (0.871). After making the jump to Bradenton in 2021 as a teenager, Dariel Lopez moved up to Greensboro this past year, taking advantage of one of the most hitter friendly ballparks in the minors. That was especially true for left-handed hitters, who . Could there also be a weather issue of comparing a full season to a partial one? #27 - RingCentral Coliseum (Athletics) - 93.5 Overall Park Factor, 85.9 Fly Ball (25th), 92 Home Run (22nd). I ran a difference in proportions test to compare the rates from both years; parks highlighted in red experienced a significant change at the alpha = .01 level, and parks highlighted in yellow experienced a significant change at the alpha = .05 level. Without advertising income, we can't keep making this site awesome for you. Take Yankee Stadium and double down. Which group would you expect to give up more homers? For one, dimensions will play a factor into a good hitters park. Its only topped a 100 singles factor once since then. Still, its 91 homer park factor matched its high mark over the last decade, and its 93.3 fly ball park factor is the highest over that span. Parks in this family tend to be doubles-deniers; this one has posted doubles park factors of 95 and 90 in 2022 and 2021. Unlike traditional park factors, THE BAT's park factors are also independent of weather, so on a 90-degree day in Atlanta, SunTrust Park would play more hitter-friendly than these factors suggest. Pitcher-Friendly Ballparks 1. Sorry if I missed it, but is the 2019 data just the first two months as well? Cellular/Guaranteed Rate Field in 132,110 plate appearances, or 3.36 HR per 100 PA. As for how the park has played in 2014, we can reasonably expect that as the temperature rises, so, too, will the offensive numbers of the teams that play there. In that case, the White Sox could very well take the crown in 2022 as having the American League's most friendly home run park. But, the home of the 2021 All-Star Game is a reputable offering with notable aesthetics. Though the outfield dimensions are among the largest . Now, this is no longer the extreme pitchers park it was years back, but it has graduated into the group of parks that yields homers, but not necessarily runs. Unlike traditional park factors, THE BAT's park factors are also independent of weather, so on a 90-degree day in Atlanta, SunTrust Park would play more hitter-friendly than these factors suggest. Lucas Giolito (11) Both its fly ball and home run park factors reached their lowest points over the past decade, and that 83 home run mark marked its first foray below 100 over that span. #16 - American Family Field (Brewers) - 99.0 Overall Park Factor, 109.4 Fly Ball (7th), 114 Home Run (4th). Due to an open-air park being next to Lake Erie, balls hit into the air at Progressive Field are often at the mercy of the winds that blow in off of the lake, which can either keep a ball in the field of play or push it well beyond the reach of an outfielder's outstretched glove. it hasnt had a homer park factor over 84 in the last decade. Dylan Cease (11) It hasnt posted an average or higher triples park factor in the last decade, though the 2022 mark of 99 represents a high over that span. Expected Weighted On-base Average (xwOBA). Unlike most park factors, I use one year worth of data, not two or more. Nolan Ryan would legit have 7500 strikeouts, 12 no hitters and AT LEAST one 25 strikeout game if he pitched today and were allowed to stay in as long as he did. Adjust expectations accordingly. Its 2022 fly ball park factor does represent a high water mark that is unlikely to be repeated, but this has been the most line drive-friendly park (109.1 in 2022) in the game over the last decade (106.8 average). Another guy said the absolute best. Even before the fences came in, this park was one of those that yielded homers, but not all that many runs. While Coors gives up hits of all types, Great American bludgeoned its way to the top of this list by being by far the easiest mark in the game for home runs. The best is probably Shippett, it has less elevation but the walls are much closer than Coors. #9 - Guaranteed Rate Field (White Sox) - 101.3 Overall Park Factor, 95.9 Fly Ball (17th), 103 Home Run (15th). #26 - Progressive Field (Guardians) - 94.7 Overall Park Factor, 95.6 Fly Ball (18th), 102 Home Run (16th). Pretty neutral park, except for two factors - its posted a lower than average triples park factor for 9 of the last 10 seasons, and an average or above singles park factor for 8 straight seasons. Give the full BA article a read here, but the high points on how the Cubs' minor league ballparks played in 2021: Triple-A Iowa: Played 13% more homer-friendly than the average ballpark, and 3% more friendly to balls in play. As my eyes and ears continue to fool, its hard not to presume more external forces are at play. Totaling up the ratings in all six categories, then dividing that total by six would give us one, overall park factorwhich we'll call total park factor (TPF)allowing us to see which ballparks truly are "hitter-friendly.". The granular nature of the data being utilized tends to smooth things out and yield very reliable results. Moving forward, I consider this park as slightly pitcher-friendly. Year-round warm temperatures, relatively low humidity, short fences and a lack of foul territory have all contributed to make Globe Life Park in Arlington one of baseball's most notoriously hitter-friendly parks since it opened in 1994, when it was known as Ameriquest Field. For the first time in the last decade, Coors has been nudged from the top spot on this list. Before that, however, is the 2021 MLB Home Run Derby, which takes place Monday, June 12. Generally speaking, Coors Field is far and away the best park for hitters while places like Guaranteed Rate Field . While football fields are always 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide, in baseball, you can find the 37-foot-high Green Monster in Boston, or the 420-foot-deep center field in Detroit, or the short porch in right in the Bronx, or just the general everything about Coors Field. This is about as high on this list as this park can finish - it hasnt posted an above average homer park factor in the last decade. That required looking at various dimensions and coming up with something that, based on home run rates and park factors and so forth, was more or less neutral as between pitching and hitting. From 2012 to 2013, Angel Stadium ranked 15th in runs scored (1,380), 16th in slugging percentage (.402) and 17th in home runs (318). Visual contact quality that chased outfielders back toward the warning track the last few years is now resulting in outs caught by stationary fielders. Ross Detwiler (12) It actually was even more hitter-friendly in the shortened 2020 season after 7 straight pitcher-friendly seasons. attempt. one base to another, like Home To First. Eight of MLB's best power hitters will step into the batters' box at Coors Field one of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in the sport for the 2021 Home Run Derby. With Miami moving into new digs in 2012, using data from 2011 and earlier simply wasn't possible. in "feet per second in a player's fastest one-second Anything above 400 is going to be pitcher friendly. The turf also lends itself to an increase in extra-base hits. Partial-season park factors, while useful to see how a ballpark is. But there's plenty of movement on the list, with Marlins Park making the biggest jump, moving up nine spots to become the fourth-most pitcher-friendly venue in baseball. How much time, in seconds, it takes a runner to get from The best MLB stadiums for hitting homeruns are Coors (Rockies) and Yankee stadium and the hardest is probably PNC (Pirates) or Safeco (Mariners) although im not exactly sure on pitcher friendly. This is perhaps the king of the Homer But Not Necessarily Run-Friendly parks. So, it's easy to see how a good tailwind can beat high altitude for home-run hitting any day. He's thoroughly experienced playing in season-long re-draft leagues, keeper formats and daily games. able to make a catch on an individual batted ball. Aug 26, 2022. Take a look at both and let us know which you think is the more effective ranking systemand whyin the comments below. Its one of 7 ballparks that have posted average or higher homer park factors in each of the last 10 seasons. It hasnt posted a doubles park factor over 94 since 2016. Yes, somehow, someway, T-Mobile logged the 2nd highest homer park factor in the game this season. His fantasy advice for baseball and football has been found at many locations around the internet. Instead, look at the pitchingboth by the Reds and by the two teams that have paid them a visit, the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Raysas the primary culprit behind the decrease, nearly across the board, in offensive production at the bandbox known as GAB. Additionally, the parks with the most extreme factors for run-scoring and homers are also featured. Typically one of the more difficult places for a player to pick up an extra-base hitevidenced by a .388 slugging percentage that ranks 20th out of the 30 ballparks in baseballthe 2014 figures for the home of the defending National League champions are skewed by a small sample size of only six games. It should come as no surprise, then, that Oakland's ERA (3.19) and WHIP (1.17) at home in 2012 and 2013 were significantly lower than they were on the road (3.95 and 1.30, respectively)or that the Coliseum is playing as even more of a pitcher's park than usual this season. 390 to Center (Tennessee) is going to be VERY hitter friendly. Very odd ballpark here. As the season wears on, that number figures to fall back in line with its previously established norms. Even the crack of the bat oft proves misleading. As a result, hitting from the right or left side of the plate will not yield an advantage. I compared the samples of 95109 mph, less-than-30 degree data from 2019 to 21 to evaluate just how pronounced these effects were and found that average exit velocity did not shift by more than 1 mph and that average launch angles did not shift by more than 1 degree. Why are we only focusing on 2012 and 2013? When you suppress both homers (8 straight years below 100 HR park factor) and singles (10 straight years), there simply arent many avenues to behaving as a hitters park. 10 solid years without a sub-100 homer park factor for Minute Maid. The others in the top five are Yankee Stadium (9.6 percent), Great American Ball Park (9.5 percent), Guaranteed Rate Field (8.8 percent) and Fenway Park (8.1 percent). Offensively, you can't stand it. There were a handful of outstanding questions that I still had, one of which was the impact of the new baseball on a ballpark-by-ballpark basis. Citi Field knocks scoring down a whopping 15.9%, while the Oakland Coliseum and Dodger Stadium join it as the others that reduce scoring by more than 10%. ago. I feel this way about Dodger Stadium, too (and the data! A swirling wind lends a hand to fly balls as they near the outfield walls, a wind that would probably result in a bigger offensive explosion were it not blocked by the office building in center field. player has saved over his peers. The traditional run and homer-suppressing park boosted both, with park factors of 1.048 and 1.083, respectively. The movement of a pitch is defined in inches, both in exit velocity of 95 mph or higher. Fly ball park factors? One of baseball's most storied and celebrated ballparks, the subterranean ballpark (fans enter in the middle of the stands, not at ground level) has been home to the sixth-fewest home runs. Base hit types also correlate pretty closely - particularly homers (0.69), doubles (0.56) and, yes, triples (0.64). But we typically see the cream rise to the top in terms of the most hitter-and-pitcher-friendly ballparks. This is a pitcher-friendly park that doesn't require the Giants offense to provide a ton of run support. At the beginning of May, I wrote two articles about the slightly-deadened baseballs effect on league-wide home run rates. Pay little attention to the team's hitter-friendly TPF in 2014, which has been caused largely by an abnormally high number of triples so far in 2014 (seven in nine games). Sure, the Green Monster turns fly balls to left field into singlesif an outfielder knows how to play the ball off the wallbut the park's oddly designed outfield, with deep power alleys and walls of various heights, lends itself to routinely high amounts of doubles and triples being hit there. Each number is set so that "100" is average for that metric, and the park-specific number is generated by looking at each batter and pitcher, controlled by handedness, and comparing the frequency of that metric in the selected park compared to the performance of those players in other parks. It should be noted that Amarillo and Reno play in hitter-friendly ballparks and Thomas had a much better slugging percentage at home (.667) than on the road (.462). Coors dramatically inflates offense on liners, dramatically inflates doubles and triples, you name it. Ervin Santana (3) Another homer haven that steals runs in other ways. The weather has yet to warm up, and comparing cold-weather numbers against those compiled across an entire season does us no good. The Guardians won 6-3. These are St. Louis, Seattle, and Cincinnati. The conclusion was pretty much exactly what youd expect: A bouncier ball with more drag did reduce home runs, particularly among softer-hit balls at lower launch angles. Hope that these numbers can be the jumping off point for a more robust analysis by someone else! This is one of a handful parks with an undeserved reputation as a hitters park. Another park that isnt as hitter-friendly as most believe. Its 96 mark was just a notch off of its decade high. The stadium is amazing and so much history but is actually quite a launching pad. MLB Advanced Media, LP. Fenways doubles park factor has been 107 or higher each of the last 10 seasons, and 116+ in 9 of them. This season, it's not even closeNationals Park has been one of the more extreme pitcher-friendly parks in baseball. How high/low, in degrees, a ball was hit by a batter. The park hasnt posted an overall park factor over 100 over the past decade, but has posted a 100+ homer park factor in 5 of those seasons, with 2022 easily the peak. We can only guess which parks now have them, but it is important to keep in mind that the ball is not the only difference. by Retrosheet. FC Barcelona Prepare Bombshell Announcement For New Squad: Reports, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins Offer Differing Views Of Domingo Germans Sticky Situation. Carlos Rodon (7) On the other end of the spectrum, look at Oakland, which saw a drop of almost 32 points in home run rate on these wall-scrapers. 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