Our left to center field is the worse in baseball with the bullpen caves, yellow zig zag line, and so many different elevation changes. I can only LOL!!!
It supposed to look nice when it's done; it supposed to be filled with green ivy , sort of like Wrigley Field.
Are we going over or under the original Enron Field numeros... 249 HR and 900 Rbi... and then there was the pitching staff who had a 5.24 era and gave up 234 HR? Has anyone tallied some park adjusted projections yet...
http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2017/2/8/14540102/trading-tals-hill-for-home-runs Astros would have hit 12 more HR last year and 5 more in 2015. I don't expect it to change how MMP plays too much. Maybe advantage will lean slightly more to the offensive side but it should still be a pretty neutral park. Graphic from 2013 showing ballpark dimensions: https://i.imgur.com/RFbneNT.jpg Edit: Wow, 2016 park factor is surprising. MMP at #30. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor
Dimensions and gaps now more similar to Camden Yards, which has always skewed towards being a hitters park (and in some years, an extreme hitters park). If you want to get rid of the hill for safety/"too gimmicky" reasons, so be it.... but I hate the fact that they had to sacrifice the dimensions that regardless of whether its fair or not fair, did even out the gaps and HR tendencies of the ballpark. Biggest change from the Enron days was them raising up the joke of a line in LCF.
