Ballpark Size

[Frayed Knot]

No real point here, I just found this list while kicking around and I was always curious which parks had the most area in play but had never seen it spelled out.

The list shows the estimated square footage of fair territory in each park.
Any differences are, obviously, all in the amount of outfield.


118,000 sq ft - Colorado
117,000 - Arizona
116,000 - Detroit, KC, San Diego, Washington
112,000 - NYY, StL, Texas
111,000 - NYM, Atlanta, Anaheim, Oakland
110,000 - Milwaukee, San Francisco
109,000 - Pittsburgh, Seattle
108,000 - Baltimore, Tampa, Los Angeles
107,000 - Minnesota
106,000 - Chicago (NL), Cincinnati, Florida, Houston, Toronto
105,000 - Boston, Chicago (AL), Cleveland
104,000 - Phildelphia

[Guest Edgy DC]

Coolio. Where's the list? Do they also have the footage in foul territory, or fore prior configurations in ballparks that have been renovated --- looking at you, Yankees.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm wondering what Citi Field's number will be, compared to Shea's 111,000.

[Frayed Knot]

Some guy at The Hardball Times says he got it by following supposedly-to-scale stadium diagrams from this site and then using a computerized tracing program to find the area.
For purposes of this exercise he was just using current stadiums and measuring fair territory.

[metirish]

No real reason why but I would have guessed that Minnesota's fair ground was bigger.

[Centerfield]

I don't see how Baltimore and LA can be even.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Man. Phillie claims they ordered an offense neutral park from the catalog. No wonder Myers is such a misanthrope.

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: I don't see how Baltimore and LA can be even.

I thought Baltimore would be further down the list also, but they remodeled Dodger Stadium a handful of years ago pushing the plate forward (and thereby shrinking the park) for the purpose of adding in new seats in back of and on each side of the newly placed home plate. It's rep as a killer pitchers' park really stems from earlier days and the supposedly higher mound but it never really was a bad HR-hitters park. Instead, what it does have is smaller corners which tends to supress doubles & triples and the smaller overall OF gives the fielders less room to cover which tends to cut down on singles. Hence, a park favoring pitchers even though is isn't all that big.