I then considered what impact the home team’s defense had on the crushed-but-out rate. 500 turned into outs at Globe Life Field compared to other ballparks? The league-average rate was 25.5 percent during the regular season, so Globe Life’s 26.7 percent mark only ranked as the 12th-highest. How often were batted balls with an xwOBA of at least. So, the next thing I did was I looked at all 30 ballparks - err, 29, since Statcast data can’t be queried for Sahlen Field for some reason - and applied the same criteria. 7! You can’t change that.) But I wasn’t satisfied with “the sample size is too small” as my answer quite yet, even if that very well could be it. (It’s 407 feet to center field because Iván Rodríguez wore No. That could be the end of the analysis right there: Globe Life has played weird, but it’s still too soon to draw any firm conclusions, especially when you consider all of the meaning they built into their field dimensions. That’s not too outrageous, and thus not statistically significant. (It’s certainly a good reminder for myself, considering I tweeted that Globe Life “should move its fences in” after Taylor’s fly ball was caught last night.) This doesn’t rule out Globe Life Field from playing big rather, it says that given the sample size we have at the moment, there’d be an 18 percent chance of seeing a crushed-but-out rate as extreme as we have seen so far in the playoffs. While Globe Life has seen its rate jump by 7.5 percentage points here in the postseason, the last number in the above chart - the p-value - reminds us to stay grounded before making rash judgements about the field’s seemingly-odd postseason tendencies. The disparity is even worse when you look at the these rates compared to the parks’ regular season figures: That’s worse than its American League bubble counterpart, Petco Park (31.4 percent), which is not only one of the most-pitcher-friendly parks in the majors, but has also gotten eight games of the Rays’ excellent defense. Of the 72 with this solid contact, 27 were still turned into outs, good for a 34.2 percent crushed-but-out rate. 747 average and a 1.448 slugging percentage on these batted balls during the regular season. 500 xwOBA threshold provided an ample sample size, as well as generally leading to positive results for hitters: they posted a. Through Game 2 of the NLCS, there were a total of 72 batted balls at Globe Life Field that had an underlying expected wOBA of at least. But, during this postseason, there seems to be a troubling trend for games played at Globe Life Field: balls that normally would go for extra bases or home runs are turning into outs at very, very high rates, and it likely isn’t due to defense alone. In baseball, these things happen all the time: balls are crushed, and the fielders just happen to be in the perfect position to make a normally-difficult play look relatively easy.
All season, just one out on this type of contact was made.
During the regular season, similar batted balls to Taylor’s flyout went for extra bases 94 percent of the time, and more specifically, went for home runs 80 percent of the time.
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