Chien-Ming Wang Sucks
Baseball & The Boogie Down —
... has put together in his latest blog entry. I agree with Dave that the place looks empty at times. I think that has more to do with the Yankees pricing strategy than anything else. I hope they figure that out because it definitely looks empty on TV. ...
Was Watching: Is The New Yankee Stadium A Homer Haven?
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Was Watching: Is The New Yankee Stadium A Homer Haven? I demand those 264,865 “Steroid Era” articles be retracted! Including an exhibition set against the Cubs, there’s only been a handful of games played at the new Yankee Stadium, to date. Yet, it seems like baseballs are flying out of the new ballpark in the Bronx. Wondering about this, on April 18th, as the Cleveland Indians were pounding the Yankees in the House that Stein Built, I dashed off the following question to Greg Rybarczyk who runs the website Hit Tracker and who knows a thing or two about homeruns, park factors, ...
Game 13: Indians at Yankees
The LoHud Yankees Blog —
... Steve over at Was Watching talked to a home-run expert who has some interesting data on the dimensions at the new stadium. ...
Game 13. Indians @ Yanks. Yanks look to AJ to be a stopper, ace and give IP…again.
The Sommer Frieze —
…and they also try to say “hello, again” to Pavano.
AJ vs. Pavano.
Steven Jackson is up. Claggett (although unofficial) down. It seems like all of AAA’s bullpen will be here by the end of the month. Melancon and Tomko? Get in line.
Here is a good piece on the dimensions of the Stadium. Not as exact as we thought. Especially in RF.
Say what you will about Wang, but one thing is certain. The Yanks need to get him straightened out. We are talking about someone you were counting on for 15-18 wins. ...
Yankees Notes & Quotes
BASEBALL HOT CORNER —
The dust settles on the new Yankee stadium while the new season kicks off this year's roller coaster ride. Let's go around the horn for some Yankee related notes and quotes: Was Watching asks Hit Tracker to confirm that the long ball is back in the Bronx. The Bats Blog clarifies the Wang options: ". The most logical route is to skip Wang on Friday and let him pitch on April 28 at Detroit. That gives him nine days off to work on mechanics and re-build his confidence. The pitching coach Dave Eiland said Wang’s ...
Yankee Stadium Wall Dimensions Not Exactly the Same
YanksBlog.com —
... the Indians put on the Yanks on Saturday afternoon. The Yanks, for their own part, have scored all but two of their runs on this opening homestand via the long ball. But there's gotta be something else to this. After all, the dimensions are exactly the same and the field faces in the same direction as the old Yankee Stadium, right? Well, not exactly , according to Greg Rybarczyk of the website ...
Diamond Hoggers — Is the New Yankee Stadium a homer haven? Talks all around the league are heating up suggesting that the new Yankee home is a launching pad, but how different are the dimensions from the old park? What is it about the new park that are making balls fly out like crazy? Some in depth analysis. [Was Watching] ...
On Juiced Balls and Homer-Happy Yankee Stadium [Yankee Stadium]
Deadspin —
... Is this "Coors Field East"? Now, if Buster Olney is fretting about this — he's calling it "a whopper of a problem" — you can be sure the Yankees are, too. (Reading Olney on the Yankees is not unlike reading Pravda on the Bolsheviks.) When the new stadium opened, there was a lot of cheery talk that it would play just like its predecessor, that in fact the dimensions were the same as the old ballpark's. But as Hit Tracker's Greg Rybarczyk notes, that's not entirely true. In certain spots the distances are the same ...
Around the Yankees' Universe, 04.20.09
Pinstripe Alley —
... at the new Stadium. Was Watching had a very interesting piece in which it analyzed the Stadium and found its dimensions did actually vary ever so slightly from its predecessor. I wonder how the ball will fly tonight ...
Speed Read: It’s All A Formality Until The Finals
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... On the other side of pitching competence, there have been 25 home runs in Yankee Stadium in the first five games; that’s about 2.5 times as many as last season. Is it the new park? Lighter balls? How about “nobody on that entire team can pitch worth a crap”? I win! ...
Yankees win, but things are messy
New York Yankees Fan Blog —
... 's Greg Rybarczyk explain that even though Yankee officials promised this park would play the same as the old park, it's not actually playing the same as the old park . (See ...
Is MLB Juicing Its Balls?
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... the only one experiencing a homer uptick in April: New Yankee Stadium is seeing balls rocket out of the stadium at a high rate.
So, is it possible since MLB anticipated a 20 percent attendance drop this season and the country’s in the midst of an economic downturn the likes of which many have never seen, baseball decided to juice its balls to increase homers in a ploy to get fans in the seats?
That’s, in part, what Greg Rybarczyk of Hit Tracker argues:
So, very early this season (actually on the second ...
Day Three of ESPN's Blog Buzz
Buzz Manager Blog —
... case at Yank-It-Out-Of-the-Park stadium.” SportsFrog.com “It is going to be something of a culture shock to Yankees fans if that park plays small. For the Reds, they are still recovering as an organization from moving into GABP, where home run driven offense has puzzled the team in terms of how best to build a pitching staff to deal with the environment. A lot more data is needed, obviously, but this is something worth monitoring as the year unfolds.” WasWatching.com “Including an exhibition set against the Cubs, there’s only been a handful of ...
Via WasWatching, Greg Rybarczyk of Hit Tracker created an overlay of Old Yankee Stadium with New...
Pinstripe Alley —
... Via WasWatching, Greg Rybarczyk of Hit Tracker created an overlay of Old Yankee Stadium with New Yankee Stadium.
A big part of the problem is that the wall doesn't begin to curve away from the field until well into center.
For those of you who think there are too few seats in the joint already, I bet a few more come out this offseason to move the walls back. ...
Could Lonn Trost (and Randy Levine) Be On The Way Out The Door?
New Stadium Insider —
... the cuff. "I practically lived in old Yankee Stadium, that's why, when the architect said, 'We're going to move right field in a foot,' I said, 'Oh, no, you're not.' To Yankee fans, those distances are sacred." - Lonn Trost, July 13, 2008 Most of right field is shorter in the new park, by as much as 9 feet, but more typically by 4-5 feet - Greg Rybarczyk (Hit Tracker Online) April 19, 2008 Apparently, Lonn Trost's architect ...
It’s the Fences, not the Weather
baseballmusings.com —
... out of the old Yankee Stadium.
“For someone attending a game at the new Yankee Stadium or watching on TV, the size of the playing field appears to be the same,” AccuWeather meteorologist Tim Buckley said in a statement Tuesday. “The dimensions at select corners of the field are identical — and the posted numbers on the walls reflect that. However, detailed schematics of the park reveal some nuances that have significant implications.”
Bloggers noticed this earlier in the season.
Around the Yankee Universe, paging the A.J. we paid for edition
Pinstripe Alley —
... IT'S THE FENCES, NOT THE WIND: Talking about the home run barrage at Yankee Stadium won't improve your mood this morning, but we have to do it. Thanks to Was Watching we already knew the right field dimensions were smaller than in the old Stadium. Well, now Accu Weather is ...
AccuWeather.com: 19% of Yankee Stadium Home Runs This Year Wouldn't Have Gone Out Last Year, Due to Fences
YanksBlog.com —
... 20 out of the 105 that have been hit out of the yard. On the current pace, they point out, 293 home runs would be hit at Yankee Stadium this season and as many as 56 of those could be due to the fence adjustments. MLB.com's Bobbie Dittmeier has stats for 2009 and the last four seasons through 25 games. Even if you take out 20 homers, the 85 home runs would still be the highest of the five seasons - by 12. Earlier this year, Benjamin Kabak of River Ave. Blues and Steve Lombardi of WasWatching.com discussed the fence dimension theory in detail.
Another Look at HRs at the New Yankee Stadium
FanGraphs Baseball —
... that the way wind traveled travelled through the new Stadium was responsible for the additional HRs. Greg Rybarczyk determined that the dimensions of the park are not, in fact, exactly the same as the old Yankee Stadium. ...
The Squanderers: Yankees 2, Tigers 1
Bless You Boys —
... lofted an outside fastball from Verlander just over the right field fence for a leadoff homer. (And so the Tigers appear to have been victimized by what so many have complained about with the new Yankee Stadium. The shorter right field fence.) ...
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