New Yankee Stadium.

[B-Diddy]

So I'm watching the Yankees/Red Sox game right now, and now I'm finally understanding the hype about Yankee stadium being a bandbox. Holy crap. It looks like a home run derby at a little league park. And I thought Wrigley was a haven for home runs.

 

 

So far I've seen Damon and Kotchman line home runs to right field that clear the wall easily, where a double would occur virtually everywhere else. Then Posada looked like a prime Sammy Sosa on a centerfield shot. Now I'm not saying these guys are incapable of power, but man. :blink:

[chuckywang]

So are the dimensions of that ballpark significantly smaller than other parks?

[cbbryan]

So are the dimensions of that ballpark significantly smaller than other parks?

 

They're pretty similar, if not exactly the same. I think it's more of the positioning of the park and the wind.

[E.J.]

It's #1 on the park factor list for home runs per game. It's def a band box.

[B-Diddy]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

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kotchman's home run was hilarious

[XZero771679666304]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

[Maclowery]

I wish I had the link, but, well, I'm hammered. The aerodynamics of the ballpark (New Yankee) create a steady wind shooting out toward the right field wall. I remember after the first month or two, when homers in Yankee 2 were just absurd, that there was talk of installing massive wind-breaker sail things. Inevitably, the home-run rate dropped enough that people stopped freaking out about it. But the place still seems to be way, way overly homer-friendly in a way that the designers did not anticipate.

 

As opposed to Houston's field, where the Crawford boxes basically shriek for a dinky fly-out to right field to somehow become a homer, but a 410 foot blast to center field is a weird fly-out with the CF running up that Outer Limits-logic ramp thing.

 

/rant for standardized fields over.

[SouthSideRyan]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

 

I believe at one point they had the longest foul lines in the majors. If they aren't still, I'd be surprised.

[erik316wttn]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

 

I believe at one point they had the longest foul lines in the majors. If they aren't still, I'd be surprised.

 

It's odd how much of a "hitters park" Wrigley was when I was a kid. With all the new, smaller stadiums, Wrigley is now neutral or a slight pitcher's park, I'd guess.

[mcgoobs]

This link indicates that while that the stated dimensions are the same, the actual fences are shorter, specifically in right field.

[Guest]

So are the dimensions of that ballpark significantly smaller than other parks?

 

It's just down the lines, actually. LF is 318 which is fourth shortest and RF is 314 which is third shortest. However, LC is the longest at 399, CF is tied for sixth longest at 408 and RC is fourth longest at 385.

 

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

 

Wrigley has the longest down the line distances in the majors at 355 in LF and 353 in RF.

 

Here's a link of the distances for all MLB parks for those interested.

[ELCABALLO45]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

 

I believe at one point they had the longest foul lines in the majors. If they aren't still, I'd be surprised.

 

It's odd how much of a "hitters park" Wrigley was when I was a kid. With all the new, smaller stadiums, Wrigley is now neutral or a slight pitcher's park, I'd guess.

 

Wrigley is still a hitters park.

[XZero771679666304]

The outfield walls appear low as hell also. At Wrigley, our walls are high enough to where no one can rob a home run, and it makes up a bit for the smaller size of the park. Doesn't appear to be the case at NYS.

 

Wrigley's walls are high, and it is pretty long down the lines as well.

 

I believe at one point they had the longest foul lines in the majors. If they aren't still, I'd be surprised.

 

It's odd how much of a "hitters park" Wrigley was when I was a kid. With all the new, smaller stadiums, Wrigley is now neutral or a slight pitcher's park, I'd guess.

 

Wrigley is still a hitters park.

 

Yes, but not extremely so. In the past few years, it has been as high as 2nd and as low as 15th in park factor (runs allowed). It is consistently outside the top 5 in HR allowed. Not that these things are very reliable. This year, the Marlins' stadium is surrendering more homers than Wrigley.

 

 

 

The whole "Wrigley is a hitter's haven" thing is overblown. It is a hitter's park, but it is no band box.