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Originally Posted by HistoricNewspapers
There is some truth to that statement. 20-25 may be a tad high though.
Dick Allen was brought up above and how he played in pitchers parks.
Here is the dilemma. Was Allen really hurt by his parks?
Allen's lifetime Home OPS was .932
Allen's lifetime road OPS was .892
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It's a little misleading to just go with home/road splits for Allen since he played for 5 teams during his career. Instead, let's go with his "home parks" and his "road parks" - that is, the 5 parks he called home at any time and then the rest of the parks he played in.
Doing it this way, his "home parks" result in an OPS of .934 and his "road parks" result in an OPS of .887. Actually, not all that far off your numbers now that I look at it
His numbers are significantly boosted by his Chicago numbers where Allen put up a 1.026 OPS during his career.
So, was Allen hurt by playing in pitchers' parks? No.