Toe Nash said:Cespedes has a .293 OBP on the road. It's not all Safeco either; he has a career .381 OPS in Tampa, a .641 OPS in Baltimore and a .668 in Fenway. He's actually nearly 100 points of OPS lower on the road.
There are sample size issues but it's not clear that Oakland really hurt him.
There are major sample size issues, quoting his OPS in Tampa, Baltimore, and Boston.
They make up 7.5% of his plate appearances. In other words...thanks for adding weight to useless information.
What he did hang his hat on was pretty flimsy too.Dogman2 said:Why the hell did you completely ignore the lineup protection line? Oh, that's right, because then you have nothing to hang your hat on.