Dayton plays a pure hitters park, the last 3 years has reaped the following Park Effect numbers.
2002 – 1039
2003 – 1053
2004 – 1074
Those are pretty hitter friendly, I expect the press to latch on to the hitting is better part of it, hopefully they’ll see that it cuts both ways too.
A hitter friendly park makes your pitchers numbers look inflated too, just in the wrong way. I know when I look at any Louisville or Chattanooga numbers that I have to remember that both of those parks play slightly in favor of the hitter.
On paper, this team is definitely better than the past two years. Offensively, they are practically the same, except none of the starting 8 are injured yet. Hitters like Freel and Pena, who each had an OPS+ in excess of 100 last year, are the first players off the bench instead of starters (though one could argue that Pena *should* be starting somewhere.)
The pitching, while still average at best, is much better than past year’s edition just by subtracting Lidle, Haynes, Van Poppel, and Jimmy Anderson.
2009 stats: Sarasota 2-1 8 Games 8 Games Started 42.1 IP 4.89 ERA 1.44 WHIP
Carolina 3-2 6 Game 6 Game Started 36 2/3 IP 2.95 ERA 1.09 WHIP
Louisville 2-2 5 Game 5 Game Started 29 IP 2.48 ERA 1.21 WHIP
RN Exclusives!
The Big Board -- In-Depth Reds Organizational Depth Chart (updated 2/23/10)
Salary Chart -- Our chart on the current and future contract status for the Reds roster (updated 2/23/10)
Loading ...
Dayton plays a pure hitters park, the last 3 years has reaped the following Park Effect numbers.
2002 – 1039
2003 – 1053
2004 – 1074
Those are pretty hitter friendly, I expect the press to latch on to the hitting is better part of it, hopefully they’ll see that it cuts both ways too.
A hitter friendly park makes your pitchers numbers look inflated too, just in the wrong way. I know when I look at any Louisville or Chattanooga numbers that I have to remember that both of those parks play slightly in favor of the hitter.
On paper, this team is definitely better than the past two years. Offensively, they are practically the same, except none of the starting 8 are injured yet. Hitters like Freel and Pena, who each had an OPS+ in excess of 100 last year, are the first players off the bench instead of starters (though one could argue that Pena *should* be starting somewhere.)
The pitching, while still average at best, is much better than past year’s edition just by subtracting Lidle, Haynes, Van Poppel, and Jimmy Anderson.
OOPS! Didn’t see the subject header…thought we were talking about the Reds not the Dragons….sorry ’bout that!
PS. Is there a good website for major league and minor league baseball park effects?
Another sell-out year in Dayton!
Heading down the 15 minute drive to 5/3 Field on Thursday….