Buster Olney: New Yankee Stadium on steroids?
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Buster Olney: New Yankee Stadium on steroids? The New York Yankees might have a serious problem on their hands: Beautiful new Yankee Stadium appears to be a veritable wind tunnel that is rocketing balls over the fences. This was in evidence again on Saturday, when the Indians posted six homers, including 14 runs in the second innings. Cleveland eventually won 22-4—and the Yankees and Indians have combined for 14 homers in the last two days. “With the way the wind has been the last couple of days, right field is a joke,” one official said. “I would say at least three or four ...
A Lazy Sunday Spent Basking in the Glow
The DiaTribe —
... With the way that the season has gone so far (and, admittedly, the games have been played in that Video Game park in Arlington and new Yankee Stadium, which looks to be just about on par with some of the newer launching pads), it might be time to buckle up and get ready for some 12-10 affairs that go 4 hours into the night. ...
New Yankee Stadium a home run nightmare (ESPN)
The Mets Police —
ESPN has two pieces about New Yankee Stadium:
New Yankee Stadium a home run nightmare
"With the way the wind has been the last couple of days, right field is a joke,"
one official said. "I would say at least three or four home runs in this series
would be routine outs in nearly every park."
(at this pace)....there would be about 400 homers hit in the park this year -- or an increase of
about 250 percent. In the last year of old Yankee Stadium, in 2008, there were a
total of 160 ...
Yankees Issues
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... looks at the stadium and other issues, including the bullpen. ESPN's Buster Olney calls the park "a veritable wind tunnel that is rocketing balls over fences." He notes that the team cannot structurally alter the park this season. ...
More homers? Blame the seats
River Avenue Blues —
... , with Buster Olney going so far as to call it “a veritable wind tunnel that is rocketing balls over the fences.” In four games the Indians and Yanks combined for twenty homers, and everyone’s wondering why in the hell this is happening. Thankfully, AccuWeather’s Gina Cherundolo took a look at how ...
NEW STADIUM RUINING TRADITION
Retro Sports Talk —
... 36 home runs in first 10 games...a major league record. The new Yankee stadium is yielding a record number of home runs so far this year and has pitchers pulling their hair out. The new stadium is ruining the great tradition of classic Yankee baseball by turning baseball games into home run contests. In a 22-4 loss the Yankees saw 6 home runs leave this new high tech ball park. Analysts are using physics and wind studies to explain this disturbing trend. As an old school fan, I hate to see this home run explosion. I hate to see baseball scores turn into football scores. I like ...
How To Fix The Yankee Stadium Home Run Epidemic
Sports articles at Blogcritics —
Here's why it pays to have a girlfriend who enjoys baseball.* I can't think of everything, as much as I'd like to pretend. We were talking about the excessive amount of home runs that pop into the new Yankee Stadium seats, specifically into the ...
Yankee Stadium’s Home Runs Entirely Yankee Stadium’s Fault
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... The initial explanation had something to do with some sort of wind tunnel at the Stadium. This, it seemed, was the explanation: In building the new Stadium, the Yankees forgot to account for some arcane weather pattern — how this happens while building a billion-dollar monolith, I’ll never know — and, architecturally, the park was undergoing some sort of freak occurrence that old Yankee Stadium had managed to avoid. That was the closest we had to an explanation, and I was basically cool with it. The Yankees didn’t make their ballpark smaller! They just ...
