MGL links to an article in the NC Times about building a winning team in Petco.
Pretty good quote from Sandy Alderson:
“You’ve got to be careful about tailoring a team too closely to your home park because you have to play half your games elsewhere,” Padres CEO Sandy Alderson said. “Secondly, you have to be sure you understand how your home park plays. That’s always debatable. It’s a tough hitter’s park. We brought the fences in a little bit after ’06, and that hasn’t really changed the nature of the ballpark. You start with good pitching.”
Anyway, I don’t have much to add; just wanted to pass the links along, as this stuff has been discussed quite a bit here and all over the Pads’ blogosphere. Feel free to comment here, or of course take it over to The Book Blog (or the NC Times if their comments policy doesn’t scare you off ; )
when they brought the fences in after 2006, they brought in the deepest part of center field,thats all. A section about 10 feet wide was rounded out. Right in front of the Beach.
At the time, I think somebody did a study and found it would have effected like two home runs. I am sure it is in the UT archives.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem to have had much of an impact. I’ll check the UT archives someday and see if I can find what you’re talking about.