Baseball Hitters: What dimensions have to do with it.

Parks that mostly would favor the pitcher are parks with longer dimensions against the wall, like how far the wall is from home plate.

At Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY. The dimensions are 318ft. in left field, 314ft. in right field and 408ft. in center field. This park is ranked 5th in the hitters parks chart. It seems more that if the outfield walls are shorter then its going to favor the hitter because at Shea Stadium, left and right field are 330ft. and left center is 378ft. This park favors the pitcher because its harder for a hitter to get a homer off the pitcher do to the home run walls being so far.

The new Yankee Stadium is going to favor left handed batters, with the right field foul pole being 295ft. And in right center its going to shoot out to 429ft. The left field pole is going to measure 281ft. And by left center its 460ft.

Yankee Stadium benefits almost both hitters and pitchers because the outfield corners are so short, so it gives pull hitters a big home run advantage. Pitcher, Roger Clemens went 9-5 with a 3.56 ERA at home and going 5-5 on the road with a 6.20 ERA. Any Pettitte was the same way going 10-3 at home with a 3.16 ERA and 5-7 on the road with a 4.97 ERA. But hes the type of pitcher who lets his defense do work to and not try and always strike the batter out, and if he thinks he may end up walking the batter, he'll give him a strike so he can hit iit and the defense can back him up.


"Yankee Stadium." New York Yankees. 5 Jun 2008 http://www.baseball-statistics.com/Ballparks/NYY/.