PETCO Park

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In this article, Padres GM Kevin Towers claims that PETCO is "Bonds-proof".

Here are the dimensions of the two parks:

SBC Park
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Left Field: 335 feet
Left-Center: 364 feet
Center Rield: 404 feet
Right-Center: 421 feet
Right field: 307 feet

PetCo Park
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Left Field: 334 feet (99.7% of SBC)
Left-Center: 367 (100.8% of SBC)
Center Field: 396 (98.0% of SBC)
Right-Center: 411 (97.6% of SBC)
Right Field: 322 (104.9% of SBC)

Bonds has hit the majority of his homeruns at PacBell to Center and Right Center, where the dimensions at PETCO are actually closer.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ESPN had a bit about Padres players saying that this was going to be a pitchers' park because of the winds.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but PacBell is the same thing: open gates from right all the way to right center with wind coming in to the park from off the bay.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

milo, i freaking hope so. look at those weak left-center - centerfield dimensions. it seems everyone's catering to RH power hitters these days...
but i'm pretty sure towers was joking, gygax. if only because after the last three years no one could possibly have the nerve to state such a thing.

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I want someone to bring back wacky early-20th century dimensions.

My favorite park of all-time is the Baker Bowl, where the Phillies played during the Depression. Right-center was 300ft, right field was ~272-275, with a sixty-foot wall.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course the polo grounds!! check out these dimensions: http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/pologr.htm.

at least they're avoiding the drab symmetry of the 60s and 70s, but it's time for someone to take the next step.

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Tie-in to the videogame thread - I'd never stop playing MVP Baseball if they had imported the Baker Bowl and let you use it in dynasty play.

Do teams have to get any kind of MLB approval on their dimensions before building?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This place is enormous... There are huge power alleys in right-center AND left-center. Marquis Grissom (the first and as of today, only person to have a homerun at PETCO) said that you could play 2 guys in centerfield. Ryan Klesko had 4 monster hits that would have left any other park in a hurry, only to have them fall for outs or single/double.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Do teams have to get any kind of MLB approval on their dimensions before building?

i was under the impression that there were minimum distances that parks had to which the parks had to conform, not sure if that's true anymore. i would assume there is but i've been wrong about alot of things so take it with a grain of salt i guess.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops, in my effort not to end a sentence with a preposition i made that sentence totally unreadable. sorry.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost for gygax)r:

It looked huge to me on TV, too.

Very nice looking park though, the building they turned into the left field foul pole looks classy (I'm a sucker for old brick) and isn't overshadowed by a dozen other pieces of requisite flair as seems to be the style with modern ballparks.

― mattbot (mattbot), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Juice Box getting the squeeze!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm really sick of pundits saying shit like "i cant believe this - petco is NOT A HOME RUN PARK what were they thinking??? oh well i guess they'll deal, maybe!" and after EVERY deep double/fly out "that WOULDVE been a home run in most parks!" - i mean, that's fine for now, but do you think they'll ever stop?

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's hilarious that they critique teams like the pads for this as well, john, especially as the assumption that they're running under seems to be that THIS TEAM WILL PLAY IN THIS PARK FOR THIS SEASON AND THIS SEASON ONLY. ever hear of the future, reynolds??? wtf!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3, save the HR testimonials for this thread, plz:

Harold Reynolds = Asshat

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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