The Giants have never had a winning season at AT&T without a power core. We've had plenty of speedy doubles hitters in the middle of the order that got us a bunch of losses.

The easiest thing in the world to do is overestimate park effects. They're not that important.

It's a give and take kind of thing for me.  Yes you have 400+ foot outs, but you've got a great theme, that's there for a reason and not arbitrary like the f'ing pool in Arizona or the hill in Houston.  The park was planned with all of this in mind.

If you're interested and haven't done it yet, I strongly encourage the tours they do of the ballpark.  If you get a good guide, you'll hear all kinds of interesting tidbits about the design.  For instance, did you know that originally the plan was to have the ballpark rotated 180 degrees from it's current position?  HOK (the architects) then did a wind study and found that while the views of the skyline would be spectacular, it would be next to impossible to hit one out because you'd be hitting it right into the marine breeze.  Not to mention the 40,000 frozen fans every night.  

This reminds of something that happened a couple of years ago.  We were headed into the game on a cap night and running a tad late. (Women!) They were out of caps at the Lefty O'Doul Gate, so we headed over to the gate behind CF via the portwalk.  There was on pre-game on-field promotion with the Budweiser Clydesdales and they were bringing the entire team and draft carriage out through the gate under the arcade (where the knothole gang is) and then planned to drive the carriage along the portwalk where I assume they would load them onto a truck near the the O'Doul bridge.  

We stopped to watch them as it's not often you get to see those huge horses really close. As they were trying to steer the team through the arcade, the horses were getting a little spooked and were having trouble making the hard right turn.  It was acually a little scarry as one of the drivers came down from the top of the cart to try and control the horses. Their stomping feet moving was actually shaking the cement sidewalk of the portwalk.

It was exciting, but I didn't get a damn cap that night.

Sorry, I actually do respect the risk that these bullpens present and I'm not trying to be mean about it. I just thought tennis balls were funny. That said, how many broken ankles have we seen since we moved in? I don't think the risk quite warrants the trouble it would take to move them.

Put on your "owner" hat on.  If moving the bullpen to the outfield lost you...I dunno, 2-3,000 seats out in the bleachers, would you be OK with it?  Remove an entire section or two out there, and you'd have your bullpens out of the way, but you'd be limiting the capacity of your park, all other things staying as they are.  

Keep in mind that we don't have any 2nd or 3rd level seats in the outfield (excluding the sliver of stuff behind the left field pole).  Not only that, but you've got what equates to next to nothing for seats along the arcade.  This isn't Yankee Stadium or where the evil ones play.  Our place can't hold 60,000 and the seats we do have are at a premium.