“We want a neutral ballpark where if you hit a ball well, it should be a home run,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo told ESPN. “The second they start feeling like they can’t get the ball out of the ballpark, they start changing their swing. I watched it for years and years and years, and I just felt like this is the time to try to push it and see if everything we felt for however many years is accurate.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So to set expectations, no one should expect dinger after dinger to fly out of the yard in Kansas City beginning this year. It sounds as though this was all done with a delicate algorithm to ensure the team can recruit both top-level hitting and pitching to its organization. Which is smart. <\/p>\n
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How much of a difference will this all make? That part is going to be fascinating to watch because even the best-designed models can leave room for some surprises. If nothing else there’s a whole fanbase walking around their places of work right now making conversation about there being some more big flies at the baseball field this summer.<\/p>\n
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