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In response to
"Sure but I can't get past the fact that they weren't major league pitchers and those aren't major league parks."
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Krusty
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If it's smaller parks to mitigate his #'s, you'd see a massive spike in HR's for him taking advantage
Posted by
Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz)
Jun 5 '10, 09:22
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and to a degree, you do. Avg of 18 a year there, vs 9 here.
But that's also overlooking the idea that smaller parks = smaller hitting areas.
What's a gap-double here might be caught there as each fielding quandrant is smaller and thus better patrolled. I'd wager that what he gained seasonly in homers (8-10) was mitigated severely by the tighter quarters to actually drop hits into.
And the inferior pitching argument doesn't add up to a tremendous quantity in my mind given his average performance.
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