Royals moving in and lowering fences.
Late news but hope it makes it in
Late news but hope it makes it in
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Being the Mets, I don't spend a ton of time at Kaufmann, but if Sony can either get this in at release or a later update,
its still definitely a good reason to upgrade to MLBTS26, especially if you play as the Royals, or even the White Sox or Detroit or Minnesota or Cleveland.
Straight CF is still going to be 410 feet so I don't think you're going to see any cheap homers at Kaufmann, but the wall height is also being reduced to 8 and a half feet, so it should be more fun to try to rob a homer at KC too.
Gonna be a lot of work for the Sony team tho, because Kaufmann is also getting 150 added seats in LF as well as 80 seats in RF.Mets/Jets/Knicks.Comment
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Personally, I don't like when stadiums do this. This is an older stadium without the foresight of modern stadium dimensions though, and that outfield can still use more fanfare. If a stadium were to do it, bring it on at Kauffman before they move in five years, I guess.
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The Cardinals installed temporary fences in Busch II in the 70's. Not only was it ugly but the opponents hit more home runs than the Cardinals. I remember attending a big game when the Cardinals and Pirates were locked in a close race for the postseason and Willie Stargell hit a home run over the temporary fence. Lou Brock stood there and watched a ball go over his head for a home run that he would have caught if not for the temporary fence.
Herzog later took advantage of the original pitcher friendly dimensions and built a team with speed, defense and pitching. -
Yeah, I always hope that happens to teams that make those changes (backfiring, that is).
I was especially saying that when the Angles made their right field wall have a yellow line so it was no longer the double wall. I don't know if it has helped or hurt them more so far, but that's just a prime example.
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What usually happens is they don't move the existing fences but instead install new fences with a gap between the new fences and the previous fences.≡Comment
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It has a lot to do with player retention and FA signing. When the Mets debuted at CitiField and had their huge pitchers park, David Wright went from batting .300/.390/.534 with a 30-110-110 season to still batting .300 and OBP the same, but slugging dropped 100 points because of a 10-72-88 season.
Yes that was moving to a brand new stadium, but those big outfield fences didn’t last long.
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KC had a winning record last season but was 25th in attendance. Apparently they think more home runs will increase attendance but I would point out that the team across the state has far worse attendance now with the universal DH than they had previously. In 2005 the last year in Busch II the cardinals drew 3.5 million fans. In 2025 2.2 million.
KC has bigger issues than the dimensions of the ballpark. After the 2 WS appearances they went 8 seasons without a winning record including 3 100 loss seasons. When you alienate your fans they don't automatically return when you start winning. -
Understood. I just feel when a park is made, it had dimensions in mind. Altering them because hitters complain isn't exactly an item of appeasement I like catering to. Maybe it's because I grew up watching the greatest hitter ever (Bonds) never once gripe about playing in the park with the least right field home runs.
Speaking of which, the only reason I accepted Oracle Park's changes was because it moved the bullpens out of the field of play. Otherwise, I hated them moving in the fences. It was cool to see a team like Baltimore go the other way though (only to bring it back some). -
Attendance has something to do with it, but they also had a bunch of young hitters with power (Vinny, Witt, Caglianone) and pitchers with solid GB/FB ratios so they’d like to maximize the offense they get from the guys they have before they lose them all to free agency.
The way they’ll really raise attendance is by winning and the more stats they max out they’re window to be truly competitive.
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