This is not exactly the most scientific work, but I was bored and wanted to see how Pablo would fare if he had the benefit of playing his home games in Philadelphia. So, I took Pablo’s hit-chart at ATT and super-imposed Citizens Bank over it. Looks like about 9 more clear-cut homeruns, possibly more.
Potential inaccuracies include:
1. Are both ballparks to scale?
2. Are hits marked where they land on a fly and not where they eventually end up after rolling?
3. How accurately are the hits marked?
The charts are taken from MLB.com, so I would assume that they maintain some level of accuracy on all 3 of the above points. Again, this may be wildly inaccurate, but it’s sorta fun to think about nonetheless.
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He’d have as many dingerz as anyone in that lineup. Panda Ball = Sluggerific!
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
This also doesn’t account for the height of the fences at CBB or the trajectory of Pablo’s hits.
Cool idea, though.
60-48 - Giants Series Record: 20-10-4, 15-2 at home
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - 3.58 ERA, .273 BAA, 50 K and 30 BB in a tad over 100 innings. Meh.
And how the ball travels in each location – mostly a factor of wind, but also temperature/humidity and such…
by Missing Barry on Aug 6, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
My stat sonar was going off, and now I know why
Seriously though, this is really cool. Park effects are important!
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
here it is folks
Of course this is in a vacuum, but look at where some of those homers are
With malice towards the Dodgers
I think it might not be to scale. From the look of the diagram the CF wall in Philly is 380 feet, which doesn’t sound right.
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
it does look strange that in the petco overlay, you see 369 at CBP, and 367 at Petco, yet the Petco wall is further out.
where is the source of data? I’d like to take a look at it if possible. This sounds interesting enough for me to waste an hour.
I wish hittrackeronline.com included fly balls and extra base hits. They have very detailed information on home runs, but as far as I can tell not other hits.
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Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
Here are the park comparisons, according to that site:
As you said, it’s too bad they don’t have information other than home runs…
I guess the difference in parks is much less drastic than we though, particularly to left center.
VOTE SANDOVAL
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
Yes, but the RF wall is also like 5 ft high
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Aug 7, 2009 6:49 AM PDT up reply actions
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