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Originally Posted by packs
Larry Walker. I know he's a HOFer now, but it wasn't ever a foregone conclusion. He won 3 batting titles and while the Colorado discount will always be there, he didn't win 3 batting titles hitting home runs.
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Colorado improves averages too though as they made the outfield huge in order to combat the home runs so there's a lot more square footage for balls to fall in. Not hating on Walker, but even his splits show a marked difference. Here are his three Batting Title seasons plus 1997 where he was close.
YR Home Away
1997 .384 .346
1998 .419 .302
1999 .382 .374
2001 .406 .293
So one batting title year was close, the other two are over .100 apart, and the near miss is a fairly standard home road split.