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To: chowder who wrote (16278)	7/28/2011 12:34:41 PM
From: JimisJim	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 29239

With the wide divergence in today's modern/retro ballparks, any pitcher's numbers can be influenced significantly by their home ballpark. As an example, look at Aaron Harang... spent years in Cincy's bandbox park and although he did well initially, it eventually got to him playing in a park where even Ichiro could probably ave. 30-40 HRs a year. Harang goes to San Diego, which has a huge outfield and suddenly he looks like one of the best quality starters around -- not CY material, but very successful. Same might be true for the pitcher the Mets got for Beltran... perhaps playing in a much larger park/pitcher's park will make a difference... it sure didn't help Beltran's numbers that much on offense... this also is part of why SD sent Adrian to Boston... hard for a slugger to slug 'em out in Petco Park... as someone else posted, with such a park, it may be best to concentrate on ave. pitchers or better and lots of speed in the field and the base paths. Just saying.... Whenever anyone trades a star for a pitching prospect, it is a huge roll of the dice... e.g., Hamilton for Volquez Jim

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