“I like hitting at home, no matter where home is,” Cuddyer said. “You’re used to the background, you’re used to the surroundings, the confines, you’re used to everything. The more you play somewhere, the better off you are and if you look at my track record I have always hit better at home — no matter what my home was.”
Source: New York Post
The article showed his 2015 home/road splits, which are extreme. But over his entire 15-year MLB career, Cuddyer has an .876 OPS in his home parks, compared to a .746 OPS in road parks. It’s normal for hitters to fare better in their home parks but Cuddyer’s split here is much larger than what is typical. So far in 2015, NL hitters have enjoy a 30-point OPS edge in home parks (.720) compared to road ones (.690).
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Perhaps Collins could take note and take the home/road situation into account like the righty/lefty splits when sitting Cuddyer.
If only our bench had an OF who could hit better than what Cuddyer does on the road, this would be a great idea.
Shame they let matt Clark go last summer ,he’s been hitting good again at AAA.
Or they could have got ichiro cheap over the winter.
I won’t even mention Turner…
Cuddyer and Granderson are both playing below their career OPS. They both need to keep raising this year’s numbers and neither can afford to slump because the current offensive line up is barely functioning as is. Sandy needs to pick up another veteran outfielder as insurance, bench strength and also to rest the two veterans.
It is a relief that Cuddyer is turning his season around.