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Cayts Reds and Bengals....you are a man of impeccable taste sir.Can’t fathom how the Reds can afford to add $40-50 mil a year. Wood is the only pitcher...a straight arm lefty not sure about how he plays in a short park. Kemp is oft injured past prime slugger and defensive minus OF, and Puig may be mentally unstable- often reprimanded by the relatively loose LA club for unstable actions on and off the field- he is a big horse though.
Head scratcher...but glad Senzel and Trammel are still here.
The problem with GABP is that the walls aren't high enough to prevent dinker homers and they aren't angled enough into the alleys. It made for great theater for Dunn and Griffey 15 years ago but it's murdering this lame-ass pitching staff. Of course, Reds hitters benefit from it.I know it's heresey to traditionalists, but for the life of me I can't understand why the measurements to the fence haven't been standardized. Generally I'm with traditionalists on a lot of baseball stuff, but not this one. If it's 90 ft to first at every ball park it should be 400 or whatever to center everywhere as well. Can you imagine if we decided to have our rims at Rupp Arena at 11 ft, or if Paul Brown was 110 yds from end zone to end zone?
Yeah, and thats why I agree and disagree with you. Sure, the pitchers are hurt by it, but the bats benefit greatly from it.The problem with GABP is that the walls aren't high enough to prevent dinker homers and they aren't angled enough into the alleys. It made for great theater for Dunn and Griffey 15 years ago but it's murdering this lame-ass pitching staff. Of course, Reds hitters benefit from it.
I feel like NFL fields have had those things for over a century, and somehow have managed just fine having equal measurements.There is no way to make equalf MLB parks with standard distances , when altitude, humidity and using a humidor or not, are variables.