I’d like to see a stat on unicorn HRs per park. That’s not to say NYS doesn’t play more median all around, but my hypothesis is it allows more RF unicorns than anywhere, which certainly inflates that category. There’s really only 1 alley that depresses HR there — where Anthony FO last night.
that is doable to dig up, though I'm not going to get to do it right now Specific to Judge: he's got a higher OPS on the road this year. He has 0 "out only in Yankee Stadium" homers.
He gets all of his, for sure. I checked savant but probably don’t know where to look. Only found the “Doubters.” I’d guess it’s the likes of Grisham, Volpe & formerly LeMehieu who benefit the most from the short porch unicorns. It’s weak oppo popups by RHH, or the Stanton eye-high lasers most often.
The Chisholm HR off Buehler last night was comically only a HR in NYS and Steinbrenner Field. That might be a unicorn category of its own given they designed Steinbrenner to be a model of Yankee Stadium, too. Same for Grisham on Wednesday at Tampa.
I didn't see those directly so I'd have to look, but note that Steinbrenner is merely very similar to YS, not a perfect duplicate
Of course, and the weather factors are drastically different. It’s more a humorous correlation whenever it’s a HR just in those 2 parks. Although, you mentioning Houston makes me think there might be few that don’t get out of Houston RF that both leave Steinbrenner and NYS.
remind me sometime this week and I'll see if I can grab that by venue. Last time I did, it was indeed YS and HOU that had the most unicorns. It just doesn't affect everyone equally, as you already noted