The Coors Field Factor
This post has been a long time coming. I've been saying for months that I am going to post a blog dedicated to educating the masses about the real impact of the so-called "thin air" in the Mile High City, and I've finally decided to get around to posting it. Through the years, everyone from the casual baseball observer to the most ardent sabermetric statistician has postulated that many offensive statistics at Coors Field can be attributed in large part - sometimes even completely - to playing in the high altitude. You are about to find out that, while there is definitely some truth to that, the logic behind most of the conversation is flawed. I am going to tell you about the effects of