As if a shot or two of steroids didn’t work for certain New York Yankees players, to boost their homerun tally, AccuWeather.com says the dimensions of the new Yankee Stadium, not wind factors, are responsible for a surge in homeruns hit by the Yankees, according to an AP report in the Concord Monitor. The new stadium is huge and the distance markers on the homerun fences are the same, yet the right field fence isn’t curved anymore, sheering off a few feet of distance for a scoreboard. Those mere few feet are a big edge to the left-handed hitters.

I guess that will give A-Rod an edge over his competition for homerun king. Batters look for any edge they can get to hit the ball just a few more feet. Limited to wood bats in the MLB, the power hitters must rely on tips from batting coaches, the best wood bats on the market, shorter fences, and for some of them, steroids.

-Bob Hammerstrom

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