From RLYW:
According to wOBA, New Yankee Stadium is now boosting offense by only 2%. And interestingly enough, there have been more runs scored per game in Yankee road games (10.45 per game) than Yankee home games (10.34 per game).
I really do not have much to add. While home runs are up in Yankee Stadium, the problem seems to be exacerbated by the fact that the Yankees are a ridiculous home run hitting team. There would be plenty of home runs flying out in most ballparks with this lineup, and the Yankees proliferation of power/strikeout pitchers means opponents are going to run into one fairly often as well. That being said, the new ballpark is limiting doubles and triples, softening the impact of the increased number of home runs. All of this means that the new Stadium is playing like a slight hitter’s park, and that the screaming and lamentation on the part of some fans and the media is overdone.
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4 Responses to RLYW: Yankee Stadium Boosting Offense Just 2%
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Yep. But we won’t here this is in the regular media. Once they get hold of a line, they won’t change it.
The Yankees are a very good hitting team
and in April, when the mass panic started, they were a pretty poor pitching team
good hitting + bad pitching = lots of home runs, regardless of where the fences are
Exactly. People just made assumptions about what was happening, ignoring the context and underlying performances.
The funny thing is everyone talks about home runs compared to last year at the stadium but last year we missed the playoffs and this year we are the best team in the league, just based off adding Tex and Matsui and Posada being healthy for most of the year adds a minimum of 60 or so if you count Tex as a Giambi replacement.