Moving the wall back turned out to be an excellent idea.
The price of moving back left field wall worth it for Orioles to eliminate cheap homers
According to ESPN park factors, Camden Yards has gone from the easiest park to homer at in 2021 to the most difficult in '22. The deader ball and deeper LF/wall is converting a number of extra base hits to outs. Santander just had a grand slam turned into a F7 pic.twitter.com/43xt326J6T
— Travis Sawchik (@Travis_Sawchik) May 1, 2022
So the Orioles are making left field in Camden Yards deeper. How many home runs is this going to take off the board? Uh, a lot. On how many, and who it will help and hurt … https://t.co/wXHwWikJww
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) March 28, 2022
More views of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and changes to outfield walls. pic.twitter.com/uCwmegQXDb
— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) March 22, 2022
Austin Hays can’t rob homers anymore. Ryan Mountcastle figures he needs a little more time in the weight room. John Means, Bruce Zimmermann and Zac Lowther are pumped.
— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) March 21, 2022
The Orioles are certainly curious about Camden Yards’ new left-field wall. https://t.co/gtm7YuWcCw
A look at the off-season work done on left field at Camden Yards pic.twitter.com/rbBCZqKiRD
— The Base Hit (@the_basehit) March 23, 2022
We posted some cool old photos of the area during construction last week. Here's a great video that we dug up from around the same time. https://t.co/AtKaoFTHmr
— Ghosts of Baltimore (@GhostsofBmore) July 21, 2022
Home runs pulled by RHBs in Baltimore…
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) September 6, 2022
2021: Orioles 38, Opponents 61
2022: Orioles 27, Opponents 17 pic.twitter.com/jmTlmVCKaC
Sad! 