The worst nightmare for a Major League Baseball Hitter is not a dominant pitcher. It actually is a stadium. That stadium is T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners. It tortures hitters in a multitude of ways. Some ways that are more obvious, and some that take some digging to figure out. But how does a stadium make this much of an impact on a hitter? Well, that is the question that I look to answer in this video.
0:00 Intro
1:13 Mariners home/away splits
3:33 Park Factor (a very valuable stat)
6:02 It’s raining strikeouts
7:13 The Roof Effect
8:27 Batter’s Eye
13:00 It is still a mystery
15:00 Outro
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>annoying music
>annoying cadence
>annoying self promotion
did you watch a “Baseball Isn’t Real” video and just decide to copy his entire channel? This is sad.
The main reason Griffey wasn’t on the 2001 Mariners: he HATED the new stadium that debuted in 99
As someone who played at a high level and played in Seattle and Tacoma my entire life (college included) except when traveling, im gonna expand on the amazing research done in this video. My curveball and knuckleball always seemed to break more and have much more movement at home then they did in different states. I always chaulked it up to home field advantage, environmental familiarity, and or mound comfortability without ever taking into consideration that most of the ballparks I played at were close to the marine harbors just like Tmoble park which is just a mile or so from the Puget Sound. Im willing to bet tho that it’s the combination of the batters eye and the dense marine air that has the most effect on hitters. One of the most important factors in hitting is the speed at which u can gauge the spin rate and angle on the pitch out of the hand and quickly determine what kind of pitch is being thrown. If a pitchers pitches are able to gain even a fraction of spin rate (added movement) due to the dense marine air from the effect it has on the seams of the ball plus the hitters ability to make contact is diminished even further by a bad batters eye on the field (even by very small amount), the two variables on their own may not be huge factors but when added together it could be a devastating combination of bad pitch/angle recognition and extra pitch movement. It’s far more unlikely that only one variable could have such a noticeable negative effect on hitting in just the one ballpark bc with the amount of reps Home hitters would get in a season, if it were simply just one thing preventing them from making contact, adjustments would be much easier to make and home hitters wouldnt struggle at nearly the same rate as the away teams. BUT, a combination of these variables, however, may easily negatively affect too much of what it takes to make consistent contact in today’s game. Just my 2 pennies tho.
Maybe it’s just a really bad team?
Don’t blame the stadium lol. The M’s just suck