Thanks for dropping by, and thanks for the kind words.

I think that Holliday is just the type of guy who plays better at home, for whatever reason. It could be the fact that he doesn’t have to travel, it could be the familiarity of the home crowd, could be a bunch of factors I wouldn’t get into. What I do think is that we have a better chance with park adjustments than with using road splits to determine a player’s neutral production.

When doing research for that article, I found that, this season, Holliday hit better at Oakland than he did on the road. Oakland is an awful place to hit, but Holliday did just fine. He may just be that type of player.

I did a piece similar to this on Holliday’s home/road splits on Bleacher Report back in May. I totaled up his numbers from all of his career away games and projected them out over a season. Essentially, these would be Holliday’s season averages playing in every park other than Coors Field. Keep in mind these totals are pre-2009:

91 R
21 HR
85 RBI
19 SB
.279 BA

Certainly not the numbers he posted for a few years in Colorado, but he’s no slouch either. If he re-signs with STL, I think he’ll have another big year hitting behind Phat Albert.

Keep up the great work!