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Offline The Chief

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Home field DISadvantage?
« Topic Start: September 22, 2005, 07:05:05 PM »
Just some numbers to chew on:

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Brad Wilkerson:
home: .232
away: .262

Jose Vidro
home: .216
away: .316

Jose Guillen
home: .242
away: .321

Preston Wilson
home: .212
away: .308

Brian Schneider
home: .225
away: .306

Gary Bennett
home: .182
away: .250

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Nick Johnson is about about .020 better at home on the season (.302 vs .280), Cristian Guzman is over .300 this month both home and away, but I felt it pretty pointless to examine his performance prior to this month.  Vinny Castilla is the most consistent player in the regular lineup, hitting .255 at home and .252 on the road.

Other than these three (only one of whom has been significant at the plate all season anyway) you can see that our regular lineup suffers badly when playing at RFK, and in most cases excels on the road.  Even Gary Bennett hits a decent .250 when he gets out of D.C.

I used to think RFK was a huge advantage to us, and maybe during the first half, it was.  But man I bet these guys (at least the ones who are still around by then) can't wait to get out of RFK and into the new park :?