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Originally Posted by rats60
Above, it was poorly arguement that Koufax unfairly benefited from his home park when historically it has been pretty close to neutral. The fact that during that time, the Dodgers had the lowest staff era in the NL every year, while having one of the worst offenses (8th, 8th, 8th & 6th ) should leave anyone with an ounce of common sense to realize scoring would be abnormally low. It is not that people don't care about those advanced metrics. It is that they are often misused and result in erroneous arguements.
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The fact is that Dodger stadium has benefited pitchers since 1962.
It's also fact that each year Koufax pitched there he performed better at home vs the road. It's a very pronounced difference.
1962-1966 Koufax
Home
Faced 2,714 batters, gave up 34 HR
1.37 ERA
Away
Faced 2,681 batters, gave up 55 HR
2.57 ERA
Those are substantial home/road splits.