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Originally Posted by Anyone
If you're going to do it this way, which makes sense in many ways, in very big parks (as in bigger than any that exist in real life today, the ones that lead to conversion to inside the park homeruns), Speed should be as important as Power for inside the park home runs (well, Speed should always be as important as Power for inside the park home runs, just that if you use parks that look like modern day parks it'll matter a lot less because there'll be a lot less inside the park home runs).
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Are you sure about that? If you have a park that's 500+ feet to the fence, the outfielders will have to play more than 100' from the fence. There's some point where any MLBer, even the slowest, will be able to round the bases before any outfielder could run back and retrieve the ball. The fast players would have an advantage if it was 440' to RC. 500'? I don't know.
With really long fences power might be more important than speed for ISTPers. Billy Hamilton could probably never hit a ball over Mays' head in the Polo Grounds in the '54 Series, but Prince Fielder might.
In fact... in real life, in small, modern stadiums Fielder had two ISTP homers and Hamilton has yet to hit one.
What would be great is to see someone like Eric Davis with 30-homer power and 80-steal speed in a deadball era park.