What is the best stadium for home runs?

[takki]

I actually would like to know the best stadiums for a variety of things.

Which is the best stadium for home runs?

For fielders, which is the best stadium? (or in other words, which ones either have the furthest away walls or the field naturally gives a massive advantage to fielders) Does this game even account for things such as the odd wind tunnel screwing up ball flights at Citi field?

Which stadium has the best home run celebration they perform (for example, the giant water slide at Miller Park)

[codyj123_321]

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Rockies for sure. That park is a HR derby with the right team.


The Padres has a good park if you're pitching.

[FSanchez12]

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For hitters park, while some will say Coors, I'm biased towards Great American Ballpark. I get to see it a lot being a Pirates fan and it is a real bandbox, balls go flying there.


Pitching wise, I would say Petco, or I've had fielders get good runs on balls at Dodger Stadium (albeit it's a small 2 game sample size).

[RogueHominid]

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PHI is a good park for hitters, and I like CIN as well.

I like LAD for pitchers, and they have good OF talent to run things down.

[cusefan74]

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Yankee Stadium for homeruns. That short right field lets routine flyballs end up in the stands.

[kehlis]

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Oakland is far and away the best stadium to pitch from their foul space alone.

[My993C2]

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Which stadium has the best home run celebration they perform (for example, the giant water slide at Miller Park)

Not the first time I have seen it in the MLB The Show series, but I got to witness the Miller Park slide homerun celebration this evening for the first time on MLB 15 complete with the fireworks and I have to say it is one of the better celebrations out there. Of course as the visiting team I don't want to see it too often. But this evening it was "no harm done" as my virtual Rockies beat the heck out of the Brewers 12-2 just like the real world team did.

Question: should the train in Houston run down the tracks when the Astros hit a Big Fly. I was watching a CPU vs CPU game last night with the full Broadcast presentation turned on and I heard the train's whistle when one of the Astros crushed the ball into the cheap seats. But they did not show the train move in the game.

[JPCaveman13]

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For homerun parks, if you are stocked with left-handed bats, both Fenway and Yankee Stadium have short porches in right field. Minute Maid Park isn't too bad down the lines but center is very deep. People say Coors Field because of the altitude but it plays closer to real-life for me (decent average but the long ball dies out like it does at sea-level parks since they installed the humidor to control excessive homers). Great American plays really small for me.

Dodger Stadium, Chase Field, and Comerica Park are good pitchers' parks with a lot of outfield grass and deep fences. However, shots to the gaps can end up as triples with the amount of space to cover. Chase Field has the 20-foot wall out in center going 413' - 407' - 413' and it's not completely flat so the ball can bounce oddly off of it, resulting in an inside-the-park homer for anybody with slightly above-average speed (slowest rated speed this happened with was rated at 64 and it was a more towering shot than line drive).

Then there are parks like AT&T Park. Left field to center plays average. Down the line in right is shorter than some but not like the hitter-happy Fenway, Yankee, or Minute Maid. And then you have "Triple Alley" in right center, going somewhere between 421' and 441' from home.

[jyoung]

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For homerun parks, if you are stocked with left-handed bats, both Fenway and Yankee Stadium have short porches in right field.

Yankee Stadium for homeruns. That short right field lets routine flyballs end up in the stands.

Here are Robinson Cano's home run stats since the new Yankees stadium opened in 2009:

2009 with New York Yankees -- 674 plate appearances, 25 home runs
2010 with New York Yankees -- 696 plate appearances, 29 home runs
2011 with New York Yankees -- 681 plate appearances, 28 home runs
2012 with New York Yankees -- 697 plate appearances, 33 home runs
2013 with New York Yankees -- 681 plate appearances, 27 home runs

2014 with Seattle Mariners -- 665 plate appearances, 14 home runs

The power of the porch.

[Aensland]

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Yankee Stadium and Great American Ballpark gives up a lot of cheapies; even more so than Coors IMO.

Citizen's Bank is good as well; especially to right center. But I'd rank it just one notch below Coors.

[UWfan206]

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Minute Maid Park in Houston. I just ripped 4 HRs in a series against the Astros

[MyNameIsMike]

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Please don't get angry at my question. I don't have the permission to post a new thread yet.

I'm wondering something though it my question deals around the topic of this thread.

Are home run distances the projected distance or where the ball actually landed ?

[msmith05]

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Please don't get angry at my question. I don't have the permission to post a new thread yet.

I'm wondering something though it my question deals around the topic of this thread.

Are home run distances the projected distance or where the ball actually landed ?

As I understand it....where ball landed

[BigDaddyRev]

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Cincy and Minnesota are launching pads for my RTTS guys

[majesty95]

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Chase Field in Arizona is a good one for home runs. I believe its the 2nd highest elevation behind Coors Field and they don't humidor their balls lol. Cincinnati I've started to like too. I play a lot of HR Derby and those are my two faves so far.