Yahoo Sports' Tim Brown Calls Comerica Park "Hitter Friendly"?

During the segment on the reason why Curtis Granderson is having a supposed down year for the Yankees, Tim Brown says the reason is that he went from hitter friendly Comerica to pitcher friendly Yankee Stadium.

Have you ever heard Comerica be referred to as hitter friendly before?

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No, actually the opposite—I’ve heard it called a Pitcher’s Paradise.

It’s seemingly long singles and doubles friendly tho.

by peazgrl on Aug 18, 2010 9:41 AM EDT reply actions

it's slightly hitter friendly

Long term it’s a 103 at baseball-reference. (more than 100 favors batters)

The three seasons prior to this it was above-average for runs allowed according to ESPN.com stats, too. This one it’s .998, so just barely below average.

I think it’s kind of neutral. Definitely not the pitchers park it was before then moved the fences in a few years into its life.

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by Kurt Mensching on Aug 18, 2010 10:00 AM EDT reply actions

Correct me if I'm wrong

But I’ve heard that Comerica suppresses homers a bit but allows for lots of doubles and triples, which compensates.

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by David Tokarz on Aug 26, 2010 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

On the other hand

Calling Yankee Stadium pitcher-friendly is weapons grade stupid.

And that’s the ESPN site. C’mon national writers, this stuff ain’t hard to find.

by theRPS on Aug 19, 2010 11:16 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

For real. I haven’t seen enough games in Comerica to say it is or isnt hitter freindly, but to say that Yankee stadium is pitcher friendly is border line retarted.

by Shoert on Aug 24, 2010 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Considered Hitter Friendly Because

Over the last four years or so the Tigers have had such great offenses. Cabrera, Ordonez, Grandy, Guillen, all those guys produced so many runs at home. Also because the Tigers haven’t had great pitching recently.

A homerun friendly park? I don’t think so.

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by Statimagician on Aug 22, 2010 3:53 PM EDT reply actions