Coors Field, Yankee Stadium, AT&T Park and Petco Park are four Major League parks that are synonymous with being either a hitter’s park or a pitchers park. In the 2016 Fantasy Alarm Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide I tell you why ballparks matter and why you should take into account not only a players home field but the other stadiums in their division when determining their value.

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Does the ballpark really matter? This is a question many consider when preparing for their fantasy baseball drafts. Each year players switch teams during the offseason and head to stadiums which may be more or less favorable to their fantasy appeal. While there are certainly some ballparks that offer clear advantages for the pitchers and hitters, it’s worth noting that not all hitters in a pitcher’s park suffer.

Nelson Cruz hit .307 with 17 home runs at Safeco Field in 2015 despite its ranking among the worst hitters’ parks in baseball. Jorge De La Rosa is 23-5 with a 3.59 ERA over the last three seasons while pitching at Coors Field, which is one of the league’s most favorable hitters’ parks. But he is just 16-19 with a 4.21 ERA on the road. While these are just two examples of the exception, let’s take a look at the top hitter’s and pitcher’s parks of the last year and how they can affect your fantasy decision making.

When thinking of a ballpark that favors the hitter some obvious choices come to mind, such as Coors Field in Colorado or Yankee Stadium in New York as both ballparks consistently rank tops in home runs and runs scored. For Coors Field, the stadium is built a mile above sea level which allows a baseball to travel much further than any other park in the league, which often leads to plenty of home runs and runs scored on a given night. Yankee Stadium batters only need to hit the ball 314 feet to right field for a home run, which is one of the shortest distances in all of baseball from home plate to the outfield wall. This has been a key contributing factor to how the Yankees have built their lineups over the years with power-hitting lefties. Games played at Coors Field lead the league with 932 total runs scored during this last season while finishing fourth in home runs allowed with 202. Yankee Stadium finished second in home runs with 219 and sixth in runs scored with 739 (for all the numbers see the table at the bottom of the article).

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