Nice to see the guys in NH swing the bat well. The offensive struggles of our positional prospects at double A have been causing me a disturbing amount of anxiety. Just adjusting to the level, I tell myself, just adjusting to the level…

Don't foget that Fisher Cats stadium is a severe pitcher's park. Last year it scored .802 using ESPN's method, compared to .848 for Camden Yards and .816 for Petco Park, the most severe parks in the Majors.

Sure, maybe the park does play well to lefthanded power hitters. Overall though, it's a severe pitcher's park, as evidenced by the park factor. The one I quoted is the ratio of total runs scored in Fisher Cat home games to total runs scored in Fisher Cat road games in 2005.

Cristian, left/right park factors have been discussed in da Box, back in 2003.  I raised the question of the park in New Haven which favoured left-handed hitters, and John Neary and Craig Burley did excellent research to confirm the suggestion.  Unfortunately, minor league L/R data is no longer publicly available (SI used to have it).  So, any gathering of data would have to be done from scratch.

I'd be really interested in seeing park factor splits for LH and RH hitters.  I suspect it's quite a difference.  The wind and dimensions favor the lefties and hurt the righties.

I'm not sure the hotel would cut down on the winds much.  It's in left center so it would block northerly winds to some degree, but most wind will come from the west  (the left field line runs pretty much North/South).

Interesting, Pistol.  The science of winds is tricky; the construction of a hotel in left center if the winds are coming from certain directions could lead to tunnelling of the winds, and actually stronger winds blowing in from straight away left. 

Green's minor league question of the day.  Yuber Rodriguez line is a mixed bag.  Like it or not?  For myself, 15 strikeouts, 2 walks and no homers in 37 at-bats smells trouble. The batting average is unsustainably nice, but I do like the 5-0 SB/CS. 

That is a good question Mike.  Yuber strikes out a ton.  Most of his strikeouts are swinging.  When he swings, he looks off balance.  He lifts his back foot instead of pivoting on it and generating any power.  His head moves a lot too when he swings which changes the plane of the ball.  I think he should go to the plate with a lead off hitter mentality, work the pitcher deep into the count and walk more.  He is more aggressive and he tends to get himself out by chasing bad pitches (elevated fastballs seem to be his weakness).

With that said, he has gotten his fair share of hits this year for Lansing and his OBP is much improved for Lansing from last year.  He will have some serious trouble at the higher levels however IMO.