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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
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.
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I guess the thing is that if Hamilton got a ball into the gap with a 500' fence then he has a higher chance of scoring than Fielder does if he hits the same ball, especially if you have Rick Ankiel or someone out there.