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Who Gets the Calls at Home? Part II

Posted by Sean Forman on September 17, 2009

Same columns as the earlier post, but from the pitching team's perspective.

Team	Lk_hm	Lk_rd	Bls_hm	Bls_rd	%L_hm	%L_rd	HFA	HFA_hi_lev
SFG	2136	1967	3967	4104	35.00%	32.40%	2.60%	0.80%
PHI	2093	1894	4056	3975	34.04%	32.27%	1.77%	0.39%
CIN	1972	1948	3995	4265	33.05%	31.35%	1.69%	2.26%
STL	2073	1829	3776	3581	35.44%	33.81%	1.63%	3.97%
HOU	2115	1799	4116	3767	33.94%	32.32%	1.62%	4.62%
MIN	2016	1727	4021	3705	33.39%	31.79%	1.60%	2.46%
TOR	1919	1859	4016	4136	32.33%	31.01%	1.32%	0.79%
PIT	1690	1703	3831	4107	30.61%	29.31%	1.30%	1.37%
WSN	1890	1835	4082	4206	31.65%	30.38%	1.27%	0.84%
CLE	2032	1879	4179	4063	32.72%	31.62%	1.09%	-1.75%
SDP	2135	1820	4425	3966	32.55%	31.46%	1.09%	2.13%
NYM	1895	1812	4162	4188	31.29%	30.20%	1.09%	1.65%
ATL	1973	2038	3728	4028	34.61%	33.60%	1.01%	2.28%
DET	1899	1829	4112	4140	31.59%	30.64%	0.95%	1.65%
LAD	2090	1906	4223	4007	33.11%	32.23%	0.87%	2.93%
TBR	1893	1992	3823	4133	33.12%	32.52%	0.60%	1.06%
MIL	1921	1885	4190	4215	31.44%	30.90%	0.53%	-0.47%
CHC	1981	1864	4230	4065	31.90%	31.44%	0.46%	-0.40%
LAA	1972	1995	4122	4246	32.36%	31.97%	0.39%	-0.06%
KCR	1987	1836	4414	4145	31.04%	30.70%	0.34%	0.84%
BOS	1946	2032	4010	4253	32.67%	32.33%	0.34%	-0.95%
FLA	2130	1841	4482	3919	32.21%	31.96%	0.25%	-1.86%
ARI	2001	1948	4054	3991	33.05%	32.80%	0.25%	0.90%
BAL	1975	1884	4238	4073	31.79%	31.63%	0.16%	-1.16%
NYY	2188	1920	4566	4035	32.40%	32.24%	0.15%	-1.12%
OAK	1813	2011	3919	4366	31.63%	31.54%	0.09%	1.44%
CHW	1901	1787	4144	3892	31.45%	31.47%	-0.02%	1.75%
SEA	1788	1845	4104	4224	30.35%	30.40%	-0.05%	-1.01%
TEX	2041	1831	4518	3870	31.12%	32.12%	-1.00%	1.48%
COL	1732	1841	3941	3965	30.53%	31.71%	-1.18%	-1.92%

Actually on the face of it there may be a park effect here. As the Rockies and Giants had almost the same spread in the opposite direction. Pitchers get more calls in San Fran and hitters get more calls in Colorado? Any ideas why?

4 Responses to “Who Gets the Calls at Home? Part II”

  1. alkeiper Says:

    Which parks are the Questec parks?

  2. lilnemo Says:

    Nice work. I have no idea about SF, but I would guess that breaking pitches not breaking in the thin air of Denver might have something to do with it. Visiting pitchers might either be cautious about trying to throw a breaking ball over the plate for a strike or (more likely) they don't quite know where their breaking ball is going.

  3. Sean Forman Says:

    I think questec has 100% coverage now.

  4. JoeDavis Says:

    Maybe it's a cold-weather influence in SF?