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Wasn't there a study that suggested a player playing at Coors as his home park could make it tougher to hit on the road? I could be making this up or mis-remembering.
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Wasn't there a study that suggested a player playing at Coors as his home park could make it tougher to hit on the road? I could be making this up or mis-remembering.
Have always personally felt that the league should require that the Rockies play indoors if the franchise is going to remain there to eliminate some of those huge disparities - you're simply playing a different game at that altitude. Probably something that should have been brought up before the franchise was awarded in the first place. It's a bit unfair to require all the other teams who AREN'T built for that park to come in there and play - no matter whether they're in Colorado's Division or not.
Yes, I remember reading something similar.
It's possible. As clvclv mentioned it's a different game to a degree and Rockies teams over the years have hit poorly on the road iirc.
Maybe they do that whenever they get a new stadium. I know they knew the effects of altitude and homers (Atlanta was the highest city before Coors and Fulton County was known as the launching pad for a reason) but I doubt they knew it would be as bad as it is before they started playing games there regularly. Unless the data for minor league teams in the area showed a trend for high scoring and homers.
JxnMissFan
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Was Fulton Co Stadium the launching pad because of altitude or because of all the terrible Braves pitchers pre 1991? Why did the home runs fall off so much moving the stadium across the street. What feature made Fulton co such a hitter park compared to turner. I've been a fan since the 80's but never really thought about the differences.
One certainly influences the other but I'm pretty sure they designed (or tried to) Turner to accommodate Glavine/Maddux/Smoltz. Just like they are trying to design SunTrust to accommodate Freeman.
Julio3000
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The only feature in Turner I can ever really remember being commented on was the 390' power alley in right center. It cost Chipper some HRs in the early days but I imagine it was less of an issue as he matured and got stronger. I'm not sure how it plays now relative to other parks, but for a long time it was essentially neutral.
A typical aging pattern would have him declining around age 30 or after, not 28. 26-29 should really be peak power and performance for most players. Arenado has a career OPS of .750ish outside of Coors, some of that is due to the Coors effect, but his power numbers are gigantically increased because of Coors. And it's really power hitters I think that see the big boosts, guys like Fowler didn't see much difference outside of Coors.
Not saying Arenado wouldn't still be excellent, I think he'd be a solid .850 OPS or above guy outside of Coors, but he would see a significant drop in power numbers playing outside of his home stadium. I think 6 WAR or so would be a fair expectation like you were mentioning. But that's leagues away from Donaldson, who has been around 8 WAR in 3 of his 4 seasons.