A NY Times artcile from Tyler Kepner reports that Rybarczyk estimates that 6 of the 14 HRs hit to right would not have been HR in the old stadium.
At the old Yankee Stadium, at least after the remodeling in the 1970s, the wall curved from the right-field corner to straightaway center. Now, because of a [...]
0 comments April 21 2009 | Mike T | Discussion
Great article from waswatching.com noting that maybe its the fact that the right field / right center field wall is actually anywhere from 4 to 9 feet closer to the field than old Yankee Stadium. Combine that with the fact that the wall is at least 2 feet shorter (in my opinion), which Greg Rybarczyk of Hit [...]
2 comments April 21 2009 | Mike T | Discussion
The Journal News takes Accuweather to task for its completely unscientific hypotehsis about the wind and HR at Yankee Stadium. Basically, the weather guy there says 1) way to small sample size, 2) wind hasn’t always been from the West, and 3) there were some crappy pitchers and/or struglling pitchers on the mound. It also [...]
0 comments April 21 2009 | Mike T | Discussion
Nick Swisher has more home runs (4) than the entire Oakland Athletics team (3). So if Giambi, Holliday, Chavez et al start bashing the ball out of the park in this series….then the wind tunnel hypothesis may be more plausible.
We’ll see tonight! I’m interested to hear what Giambi has to say after hitting some balls in batting [...]
0 comments April 21 2009 | John B | Discussion
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