Build a stadium whose top deck overhangs the field and whose semi-roof expands over the stands. The Yankees and Red Sox offenses are built upon their home ballparks, because they play 82 games at home. Building a symmetrical park eliminates the opportunity to build a lineup designed for your home park. The Yankees stack their lineup with lefties such as Johnny Damon, Robinson Cano, Hideki Matsui, Mark Teixeira (Switch), and Jorge Posada (Switch). Yankee Stadium and the New Yankee Stadium both have the short porch in left field. Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia, Mike Lowell, Jason Bay, and Jason Varitek (Switch) all rack up doubles by hitting balls off the wall that would be caught in others. Fenway Park in Boston has the Green Monster just 310 feet from home plate and they stack their lineup with right-handed hitters. Make one field very short so that you can stack your team with hitters for that field and have a lineup that will put up huge numbers at home. Let’s take a look at the best ways to design a stadium for the greatest home field advantage. Baseball teams have the freedom to do that and yet many decide not to do so. No football, hockey, or basketball team can make their field, rink, or court a different shape or size. There are no standard regulations like every other sport. Baseball is amazing in that the field you play on is different from every other field in baseball. I’m talking about what will give my team the ultimate home field advantage. I’m not talking about big concourses or large aisles. With the recent opening of Citi Field and New Yankee Stadium, I began thinking about what is necessary to build a great baseball stadium.
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