The Homefield disadvantage

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Need the road record comparison for it to mean anything. If their road record is the same or better I guess that's a little weird.

But this team has been mediocre to bad every year aside from 2021 in that sample. I wouldn't think they'd have a particular good home record, it would be kind of odd if it was much better than .500. We have mostly stunk.
 
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HfxBob said:
Because it's a hitter's park, right? Giving extra outs tend to have even more dire consequences.
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The sequence of Hamilton’s non-double play opening the door for Santander’s Fenway homer would be a textbook example. Obviously the Red Sox offense benefits from this too, but if they’re making more mistakes in the field than the visiting team, that has to put them at a serious disadvantage over the long haul.
 
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The Sox are hitting .164/.225/.273/.498 at home (4 games) and .248/.324/.402 on the road (games). And their relief pitcher have an overall 3.54 ERA vs. the 1.82 ERA for starters. And 8 of the 16 errors committed by the Sox so far have been in their four home games.

I know, small sample size, but it seems like the Sox are the team that shouldn't be playing at Fenway.
 
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zenax said:
The Sox are hitting .164/.225/.273/.498 at home (4 games) and .248/.324/.402 on the road (games). And their relief pitcher have an overall 3.54 ERA vs. the 1.82 ERA for starters. And 8 of the 16 errors committed by the Sox so far have been in their four home games.

I know, small sample size, but it seems like the Sox are the team that shouldn't be playing at Fenway.
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Geez…. With a .498 team SLG, you’d think they’d be destroying it?
 
The Gray Eagle

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Now 7-21 in the last 28 games at Fenway, going back to Aug. 25 of last season.
That's just ridiculous.
 
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Now 7-21 in the last 28 games at Fenway, going back to Aug. 25 of last season.
That's just ridiculous.
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I joked with my father that at a certain point the sox might want to consider playing the entire season on the road, if this type of ceaptastic performance at Fenway continues.
 
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Well they haven’t really been a very good team in general since 2019, so that they’ve been average at best at home seems about right. A little worse at home than on the road may simply be a function of who they have played at home vs. road, health, etc.

This year, they are pretty mediocre offensively and haven’t hit at home. Last year the pitching was much worse at home.
 
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Are we supposed to draw any conclusions about the current team from the end of last year? They’ve played 4 series at home, three against three of the best teams in MLB. The other series they won.
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Pointing out their record isn't drawing conclusions. 7 wins in the last 29 home games is the record.
Draw whatever conclusions you want. Or don't.
 
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By math the Red Sox are either 181-171 (.514) or 192-191 (.501) at home and 180-174 (.508) or 193-190 (.504) on the road from 2019-present depending on if you count 2020. I think it's fair to consider either set of numbers as home field was clearly a different situation that year.

From 2003 through 2018, the Red Sox were 780-516 (.602) at home and 668-628 on the road (.515).

Home-field advantage is down league-wide over the same time frame, but I don't know the exact numbers. Unfortunately when you look at splits on fangraphs, adding a home/away split makes leaguewide win totals disappear and I'm not going to manually add up every team's home/away records for 20+ years worth of seasons! I'd love to know how the Red Sox compare to the MLB averages from 2003-2018 and 2019-present.
 
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