i said i miss quoted what i heard on the radio. and your getting your evidence from about.com, now im shaking my head. find a website the has real mlb scouts giving info.
i will repeat, right field at fenway park is called POWER ALLY. if you have ever been to fenway did you actually see where the flags blow? i take it you have no experiance with actually playing baseball because if you did you know how much damon's hitting has changed. his avg. was 40 points lower this year, as well as more strikeouts. which shows you that the yanks are looking for more power, meaning he had to change his swing. theres your hr's. and i believe only one was hit less than 340.
i can make the same argument for ortiz.he went from 20 hrs when he was with minnesota, then 31 next year with boston. like you think it must have been because of the park.
and remember what he said "Come hit in this lineup, see how good you can be." ya great mvp
and dont forget he was hitting in front of manny the whole year which makes that statement bullshit.
i never said i was a yankee fan. but comparing jeter to ortiz. get real
I don't mean this as a put down but your typing style is very difficult to follow. If you were more clear then I could more easily understand your point of view, no matter how ridiculous.
I don't care where you got your information you still came on here and stated that "half of Ortiz's homeruns were in Fenway and that they would be routine flyballs in any other park." I completely and utterly destroyed this point yet you still fight like a delusion convict.
You're argument about Johnny Damon is ridiculous, he was batting lead off. Do I really need to explain the role of a lead off hitter in that Yankee lineup or do you understand? Also, I just checked his homeruns for the year, he hit 12 of them to right field in Yankee Stadium, that is 48% of his total. He hit more homeruns to left field in Yankee Stadium this year than he hit all of last year with the Red Sox in any park. Yeah, Yankee stadium had nothing to do with it, it was his change in swing and the fact that the Yankees wanted him to hit for power from the leadoff position.
Ortiz on the other hand hit 13% of his homeruns to right field in Fenway even though you said he hit half of them there.
Also, here's a link to the baseball almanac website, are you going to dispute their facts too? The link shows the "Power Alley" in fenway, you'll notice the dimensions in the power are 380 feet. I don't know about you but to me and everyone else on the planet 380 feet isn't a routine flyball.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/stadium/fenway_park.shtmlOh, by the way explain to me what a baseball scout would know about the number of homeruns hit by lefties in Fenway? Foolish me thought that was left to the statistics people not the scouts.
What you said about Ortiz is insane because you don't look at facts. The fact remains (even though you hate it) that Ortiz doesn't hit a majority of his homeruns in Fenway and he doesn't hit a majority of the ones he hits in Fenway to right field. Yet Damon hit 14 of his 25 in Yankee Stadium and of those 14 he hit 12 to right field.
Is it possible for you to be wrong even more?
And get your facts straight (although why I would expect you to get them straight now I don't know) I never compared Ortiz to Jeter. They are two completely different players. Strictly from an offensive standpoint Ortiz is on another planet from Jeter but as a whole baseball player Jeter is on another planet from Ortiz. Comparing them is comparing apples to oranges.
Yes, he was hitting in front of Manny, so what? Ortiz is the most feared hitter in all of baseball, to claim anything else would be a lie. Who was Jeter hitting in front of? Oh that's right, Arod. You remember Arod don't you, he's the guy that's going to hit more homeruns than Aaron when it's all said and done, you know Arod the best baseball player on the planet.
Do you even think before you post or do you just type whatever blather your fingers will produce?