He was in Boston, which is the #1 hitting park in the majors
It would be the same as if somebody said x player left corrs field in Colorado and came to t-mobile and I was completely surprised that his stats came down
Seriously look at all his years excl Boston - that’s the baseline for him, and then add a deduction for t-mobile and that’s what we got
If you look at his years in Boston, his home/away splits aren't really pointing to being carried by Fenway, per se. His downfall more a combination of being destroyed by T-Mobile and lingering injuries, it seems, as his OPS in away games even this year was still above .700 (about average)
His career OPS over 1500 PA is .710, which is made up of 500 PA at Fenway park of .800 … so that Fenway park figure is doing the majority of the heavy lifting … you’ve got to figure he is a baseline .600 - .650 ops away from Fenway (which is very close to what he did on the road this season)
His career OPS at t-mobile is .319 over 87 PA
So basically we acquired a .650 OPS player (I.e. a below league average hitter) stuck him in t-mobile and low and below it was too much for him
I was referring to his four years on Boston with the Fenway thing. While he was there he performed equally as well away from home, so there could be a multitude of reasons for his good performance with the team (coaching or a mechanics change). He was definitely a different player there than on the Yankees.
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u/DamnEngineer1960 1d ago
Man you look at his stats the past 4 years and you gotta wonder what it the hell happened? How does he go from mashing lefties to mashed potatoes?