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Originally Posted by Mark17
To basically prove your point, here are Drysdale's splits. They also show a huge Chavez Ravine advantage:
Drysdale splits 1962-1968
1962 Home: 2.16 Away: 3.68
1963 Home: 2.45 Away: 2.81
1964 Home: 2.02 Away: 2.33
1965 Home: 2.45 Away: 3.09
1966 Home: 2.25 Away: 4.65
1967 Home: 2.17 Away: 3.44
1968 Home: 1.39 Away: 3.25
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And the #3 and #4 Dodgers pitchers in 1962, everyone in the rotation who pitched over 100 innings:
Johnny Podres
1962:
Home: 3.08
Away: 4.60
1963
Home: 3.49
Away: 3.60
1964:
Pitched 2.2. innings, not a relevant sample size
1965:
Home: 2.90
Away: 4.22
1966
Recorded 1.2 innings before going to Detroit
Stan Williams:
1962:
Home: 3.68
Away: 5.54
Traded to Yankees at end of 1962 season
It's the exact same story, which is of course expected. Extremely friendly pitching park + expansion + widened strike zone = some impressive numbers and better performances at first glance than is actually the case in context. However, no mountain of evidence that Sandy's home park produces highly abnormal home statistics for everyone (him most of all, because he was the best on the Dodgers) and that on the road 2 of these 3 factors were still producing a very low run environment across the entire league will be ignored in favor of nostalgia, anecdote, and gaps in logic big enough to plow a small moon through.