Kris Bryant Firehose of Splooge Thread

[Tonker]

Two thoughts:

1. Could someone get the Tennessee Smokies a character generator that wasn't from an Atari 2600?  It's like watching highlights from 1977.
2.  Smokies park is a bit of a bandbox at 330 down the lines. 

330 down the lines indicates a "bandbox"?

The Great American Ballpark is 325/328 down the lines, so... basically, yeah.

[PenFoe]

Two thoughts:

1. Could someone get the Tennessee Smokies a character generator that wasn't from an Atari 2600?  It's like watching highlights from 1977.
2.  Smokies park is a bit of a bandbox at 330 down the lines. 

330 down the lines indicates a "bandbox"?

The Great American Ballpark is 325/328 down the lines, so... basically, yeah.

Busch Stadium


PNC Park (Pirates)


Citizens Bank (Phillies)


Tropicana (Rays)


Yankee Stadium


etc. etc. etc.

I'm not worried about Kris Bryant's power translating because of stadium dimensions.

[Saul Goodman]

Two thoughts:

1. Could someone get the Tennessee Smokies a character generator that wasn't from an Atari 2600?  It's like watching highlights from 1977.
2.  Smokies park is a bit of a bandbox at 330 down the lines. 

330 down the lines indicates a "bandbox"?

The Great American Ballpark is 325/328 down the lines, so... basically, yeah.

Busch Stadium


PNC Park (Pirates)


Citizens Bank (Phillies)


Tropicana (Rays)


Yankee Stadium


etc. etc. etc.

I'm not worried about Kris Bryant's power translating because of stadium dimensions.

Tropicana is such a shithole.  /time to post

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Two thoughts:

1. Could someone get the Tennessee Smokies a character generator that wasn't from an Atari 2600?  It's like watching highlights from 1977.
2.  Smokies park is a bit of a bandbox at 330 down the lines. 

330 down the lines indicates a "bandbox"?

The Great American Ballpark is 325/328 down the lines, so... basically, yeah.

I always figured the designation of "bandbox" was more based on the distance to the power alleys, not down the line.

Fenway's 302 down the RF line, but a shit ton more to the right-center power alley.  Typically, people point out that Fenway is not as favorable to LH hitters than RH hitters as a result of this.  They don't point  to the distance down the line as a measure of the park's hitter-friendliness--they point  to the power alleys.

Wrigley's considered a pretty decent hitter's park since the power alleys are relatively short.  Down the line, though, Wrigley's one of the furthest (you'll notice that the wall goes "back" toward the foul poles to; likely to compensate for the short  power alleys).  Again, people don't generally point to the distance down the lines so much as the power alleys in establishing how hitter-firiendly a park is...at least that's what I always thought.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

325 is the required minimum distance down the lines in major league ballparks built after 1958, though a number of exceptions have been made.

And 330 is the median and mode distance to both foul poles...

Stadium                   LF      RF
Fenway Park              310     302
AT&T Park                339     309
Yankee Stadium           318     314
Minute Maid Park         315     326
Tropicana Field          315     322
Oriole Park              333     318
PNC Park                 325     320
Petco Park               334     322
Great American Ballpark  328     325
Progressive Field        325     325
Safeco Field             331     326
Target Field             339     328
Rogers Centre            328     328
Citizens Bank Park       329     330
Chase Field              330     335
Turner Field             335     330
U.S. Cellular Field      335     330
Comerica Park            345     330
Kauffman Stadium         330     330
Angel  Stadium           330     330
Dodger Stadium           330     330
Citi Field               335     330
O.co Coliseum            330     330
Globe Life Park          330     330
Marlins Park             344     335
Busch Stadium III        335     335
Nationals Park           337     335
Miller Park              344     345
Coors Field              347     350
Wrigley Field            355     353

(Pulled pre-2008 dimensions pulled from here, the rest taken from Wikipedia.)

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

325 is the required minimum distance down the lines in major league ballparks built after 1958, though a number of exceptions have been made.

And 330 is the median and mode distance to both foul poles...

Stadium                   LF      RF
Fenway Park              310     302
AT&T Park                339     309
Yankee Stadium           318     314
Minute Maid Park         315     326
Tropicana Field          315     322
Oriole Park              333     318
PNC Park                 325     320
Petco Park               334     322
Great American Ballpark  328     325
Progressive Field        325     325
Safeco Field             331     326
Target Field             339     328
Rogers Centre            328     328
Citizens Bank Park       329     330
Chase Field              330     335
Turner Field             335     330
U.S. Cellular Field      335     330
Comerica Park            345     330
Kauffman Stadium         330     330
Angel  Stadium           330     330
Dodger Stadium           330     330
Citi Field               335     330
O.co Coliseum            330     330
Globe Life Park          330     330
Marlins Park             344     335
Busch Stadium III        335     335
Nationals Park           337     335
Miller Park              344     345
Coors Field              347     350
Wrigley Field            355     353

(Pulled pre-2008 dimensions pulled from here, the rest taken from Wikipedia.)

So according to Tonker every mlb park besides Wrigley, Coors, Miller, Nationals, Busch, and Marlins are bandboxes.

[PenFoe]

325 is the required minimum distance down the lines in major league ballparks built after 1958, though a number of exceptions have been made.

And 330 is the median and mode distance to both foul poles...

Stadium                   LF      RF
Fenway Park              310     302
AT&T Park                339     309
Yankee Stadium           318     314
Minute Maid Park         315     326
Tropicana Field          315     322
Oriole Park              333     318
PNC Park                 325     320
Petco Park               334     322
Great American Ballpark  328     325
Progressive Field        325     325
Safeco Field             331     326
Target Field             339     328
Rogers Centre            328     328
Citizens Bank Park       329     330
Chase Field              330     335
Turner Field             335     330
U.S. Cellular Field      335     330
Comerica Park            345     330
Kauffman Stadium         330     330
Angel  Stadium           330     330
Dodger Stadium           330     330
Citi Field               335     330
O.co Coliseum            330     330
Globe Life Park          330     330
Marlins Park             344     335
Busch Stadium III        335     335
Nationals Park           337     335
Miller Park              344     345
Coors Field              347     350
Wrigley Field            355     353

(Pulled pre-2008 dimensions pulled from here, the rest taken from Wikipedia.)

So according to Tonker every mlb park besides Wrigley, Coors, Miller, Nationals, Busch, and Marlins are bandboxes.

I assume Tonk was talking about kilometers or hectares or something.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

325 is the required minimum distance down the lines in major league ballparks built after 1958, though a number of exceptions have been made.

And 330 is the median and mode distance to both foul poles...

Stadium                   LF      RF
Fenway Park              310     302
AT&T Park                339     309
Yankee Stadium           318     314
Minute Maid Park         315     326
Tropicana Field          315     322
Oriole Park              333     318
PNC Park                 325     320
Petco Park               334     322
Great American Ballpark  328     325
Progressive Field        325     325
Safeco Field             331     326
Target Field             339     328
Rogers Centre            328     328
Citizens Bank Park       329     330
Chase Field              330     335
Turner Field             335     330
U.S. Cellular Field      335     330
Comerica Park            345     330
Kauffman Stadium         330     330
Angel  Stadium           330     330
Dodger Stadium           330     330
Citi Field               335     330
O.co Coliseum            330     330
Globe Life Park          330     330
Marlins Park             344     335
Busch Stadium III        335     335
Nationals Park           337     335
Miller Park              344     345
Coors Field              347     350
Wrigley Field            355     353

(Pulled pre-2008 dimensions pulled from here, the rest taken from Wikipedia.)

So according to Tonker every mlb park besides Wrigley, Coors, Miller, Nationals, Busch, and Marlins are bandboxes.

And maybe Comerica, too.

[ChuckD]

Two thoughts:

1. Could someone get the Tennessee Smokies a character generator that wasn't from an Atari 2600?  It's like watching highlights from 1977.
2.  Smokies park is a bit of a bandbox at 330 down the lines. 

330 down the lines indicates a "bandbox"?

The Great American Ballpark is 325/328 down the lines, so... basically, yeah.

Busch Stadium


PNC Park (Pirates)


Citizens Bank (Phillies)


Tropicana (Rays)


Yankee Stadium


etc. etc. etc.

I'm not worried about Kris Bryant's power translating because of stadium dimensions.

Tropicana is such a shithole.  /time to post

They couldn't even be bothered to draw it to scale.

[Tonker]

325 is the required minimum distance down the lines in major league ballparks built after 1958, though a number of exceptions have been made.

And 330 is the median and mode distance to both foul poles...

Stadium                   LF      RF
Fenway Park              310     302
AT&T Park                339     309
Yankee Stadium           318     314
Minute Maid Park         315     326
Tropicana Field          315     322
Oriole Park              333     318
PNC Park                 325     320
Petco Park               334     322
Great American Ballpark  328     325
Progressive Field        325     325
Safeco Field             331     326
Target Field             339     328
Rogers Centre            328     328
Citizens Bank Park       329     330
Chase Field              330     335
Turner Field             335     330
U.S. Cellular Field      335     330
Comerica Park            345     330
Kauffman Stadium         330     330
Angel  Stadium           330     330
Dodger Stadium           330     330
Citi Field               335     330
O.co Coliseum            330     330
Globe Life Park          330     330
Marlins Park             344     335
Busch Stadium III        335     335
Nationals Park           337     335
Miller Park              344     345
Coors Field              347     350
Wrigley Field            355     353

(Pulled pre-2008 dimensions pulled from here, the rest taken from Wikipedia.)

So according to Tonker every mlb park besides Wrigley, Coors, Miller, Nationals, Busch, and Marlins are bandboxes.

Ha ha, no.  You've misunderstood.  According to me, you can all kiss my arse.  That's what I meant.

[Powdered Toast Man]

http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/06/09/the-best-part-of-waking-up-a-kris-bryant-homer-in-your-face/

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[Eli]

Home run No. 22. He might as well be in Little League at this point.

[Saul Goodman]

Right now the Cubs are the shitty minor league team in major league uniforms you can feel good about calling your top prospect up to face. That's why watching Bryant and Baez launch six dongs (each) against the Cardinals at Busch per game will be so sweet.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Home run No. 22. He might as well be in Little League at this point.

This is really incredible.

[Quality Start Machine]

Home run No. 22. He might as well be in Little League at this point.

Kudos, I guess, to Southern League teams for continuing to pitch to him.

But I'd probably recommend against [utl=http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=33587763&sid=milb]teeing it up for him[/url] like this.