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Monday, July 06, 2009

Amount of energy to hit a HR in each ballpark

By Tangotiger, 03:16 PM

Taylor and Taylor:

The results indicate that most of the ballparks have about the same degree of difficulty. They also indicate that Barry Bonds hit primarily in an easy ballpark, Mark McGwire in an average ball park, and Sammy Sosa in a slightly harder ballpark (although the Cubs ballpark is famous for its variable winds).

That’s interesting because Bonds’ home park depressed HR of LHH by a very healthy margin.  IIRC, it was something like LHH hit one-third fewer HR in Bonds’ home park than in the other parks (if we exclude Bonds himself, who hit an equal number at home as on the road).

(5) Comments • 2009/07/07 • SabermetricsBatted_BallParksStatistical_Theory
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