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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
You like to look at data - check the Yankee's records when they had left-handed power versus when they did not.
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The most obvious example of this in recent memory was 1990, when they were pretty awful and only had two left-handed bats in their regular lineup, with only 17 homeruns between the two of them. The thing is, though, that season they went 37-44 at home and only 30-51 on the road -- a more extreme home/road split than the historical one. They certainly weren't tailored to their ballpark that season, but the home/road split was even more pronounced. Why? (For the record, the lack of left-handed power combined with a larger than usual home/road split was a feature of each of their losing seasons from 1989-1992, if you're worried about sample size issues.)