Concrete Donkey: Crocoduck: SF stuck the Yanks with an aging Goliath and a Lefty with shoulder problems.  If there's one thing History proves it's that gigantic guys never become high strike out, creaky, low output guys and lefties with long-term shoulder problems pitch just like you want them to without exception.

Oh its more than that, they stuck the yanks with someone who will collapse because of the vast difference in the right field wall....both its distance and its sudden lack of wind blowing infield going from one of the top pitchers parks to one of the top hitters parks

Yankee Stadium is 14th in total park factor (0.991 basically neutral, edge to pitcher) and 15th in home runs (1.015, neutral, edge to hitters. For every cheapie that goes out in right, just as many die in center that'd be out in other parks).
PacBellSBCAT&TOracle is 18th (0.968, very slightly pitcher friendly) and 28th (0.721, clearly homer-hating) respectively.

People just LOVE to perpetuate the myth that Yankee Stadium is hiatters heaven when its literally middle of the pack.

Concrete Donkey: The Bestest: Concrete Donkey: Crocoduck: SF stuck the Yanks with an aging Goliath and a Lefty with shoulder problems.  If there's one thing History proves it's that gigantic guys never become high strike out, creaky, low output guys and lefties with long-term shoulder problems pitch just like you want them to without exception.

Oh its more than that, they stuck the yanks with someone who will collapse because of the vast difference in the right field wall....both its distance and its sudden lack of wind blowing infield going from one of the top pitchers parks to one of the top hitters parks

Yankee Stadium is 14th in total park factor (0.991 basically neutral, edge to pitcher) and 15th in home runs (1.015, neutral, edge to hitters. For every cheapie that goes out in right, just as many die in center that'd be out in other parks).
PacBellSBCAT&TOracle is 18th (0.968, very slightly pitcher friendly) and 28th (0.721, clearly homer-hating) respectively.

People just LOVE to perpetuate the myth that Yankee Stadium is hiatters heaven when its literally middle of the pack.

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STOP THE PRESSES!
You mean to tell me.. that the home team.. who would build their lineup specifically to take advantage of their home park.. would be able to take advantage of their home park?

What does that have to do with overall park factor (which takes both home and visitor into account) or better yet, what does that have ANY thing to do with the home pitcher, what this thread is ostensibly about?

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The only reason Citizen's Bank is so low on that list is because until this year, the vast majority of the Phillies lineup was lucky to get the ball out of the infield.

That's the other thing.. that chart has more to do with each team's lineup than the parks.

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The only reason Citizen's Bank is so low on that list is because until this year, the vast majority of the Phillies lineup was lucky to get the ball out of the infield.

That's the other thing.. that chart has more to do with each team's lineup than the parks.

He says with a completely straight face with two of the worst teams in the MLB on the top two spots

I say it with a straight face because its a garbage chart with a garbage premise that you can't really glean anything from. All this chart shows you is how well the home team tailored their lineup to their home park, and not about the park itself. A -visitor- chart would be -slightly- more telling about the park itself.

..but again, this thread is about a pitcher.. pitching for the Yankees.. home homers has absolutely nothing to do with that.

If you want to see actual park factors, ESPN, fangraphs, statcast, baseball-reference, a dozen others all publish them. Take your pick.

Trocadero: He's going to be pitching at Yankee stadium more often than any other specific park.

Right.. so what does that have to do with how many homers the -Yankees- hiat at Yankee Stadium?
My whole point was that visiting teams hiat homers in Yankee Stadium at about the same rate as they do in the average park, and fewer overall hits in Yankee Stadium than average. Yes, they hit far fewer in Oracle, but in terms of overall hits they're not that far apart.

..so unless Rodon's bugaboo is the longball specifically, it shouldn't be much of an adjustment for him.