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Fromm broke his hand. not sure which.

update: left hand. non-throwing.

Cade curse ... commence

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HankHill said:
How is yankee stadium any different than Fenway Park? The pesky pole is 300ft. Both teams are hitting in the same park anyway lol.
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Lifetime Yankee fan here (since I was 5), but the advantage the Yankees have always had is that they play 81 games per year there. So they can design their roster to include players who can pull the ball down either left or right foul line for half of their games.

Conversely, teams that have players that hit deep to the power alleys or CF (advantageous in their own park, maybe) are at a disadvantage in Yankee Stadium.

Then the Yankees in the past have loaded up with left-handed pitchers (like Whitey Ford in the 1960's). So the right-handed batters that would hit well vs. the left-handers tend to fly out in the deeper left outfield.

Great team strategy or cheating? Unless MLB changes the rules to standardize stadium dimensions, I guess it's great strategy. :loco:
 
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HankHill said:
Ok...but both teams are hitting in the same Park so how is it an offensive advantage towards the Yankees? Other than outfields getting used to playing it off the wall and the dimensions i don’t think they are such thing as a “field/Park” advantage in the MLB. Both teams can benefit or be hurt by it just the same.
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That would be true if it wasn’t for the fact that the Yankees built their roster around players that have power to that short right field porch. To say that both teams benefit from it equally is a gross oversimplification
 
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HankHill said:
Ok...but both teams are hitting in the same Park so how is it an offensive advantage towards the Yankees? Other than outfields getting used to playing it off the wall and the dimensions i don’t think they are such thing as a “field/Park” advantage in the MLB. Both teams can benefit or be hurt by it just the same.
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Its been mentioned already but who plays the most games in Yankee stadium?
 
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Chief Vol 13 said:
Definitely like the black on orange there way better than the gay smokey gray's. I'm just a traditionalist through and through. Just don't see programs like Bama, Penn State, and the Southern Cal's of the world doing that stufff. Even though on a national level Tennessee isn't perceived to be that level of a blue blood program.
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I'm not sure the perception on a national level would put PSU higher than UT, at least not significantly higher. And whatever that perception is, it's very much skewed by the past decade.

Perception is reality since that's what you're talking about, but the facts are: we've won more national championships than they have, they've now won more games overall than we have.
 
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OrangenSC said:
I'm not sure the perception on a national level would put PSU higher than UT, at least not significantly higher. And whatever that perception is, it's very much skewed by the past decade.

Perception is reality since that's what you're talking about, but the facts are: we've won more national championships than they have, they've now won more games overall than we have.
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Pains me to say but I don't think Tennessee is viewed nationally as a blue blood program. People don't consider Tennessee to be in the same group as Southern Cal, Bama, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, etc. We've been so bad for so long that Tennessee's prestige has been tarnished. If Pruitt doesn't work out for some reason, it will never get back to that point again. Critical hire.
 
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