How Adrian Gonzalez will benefit from Green Monster

From Nick Cafardo’s blog entry in Boston.com’s Extra Bases:

… The Red Sox would love Gonzalez, a lefthanded hitter who hits a lot of balls to left and left-center, in their lineup, but so far there’s been no movement by the Padres to swing a deal with two years remaining on Gonzalez’s contract.

I took a quick look at Adrian Gonzalez’ hitting chart from MLB.com (This is available to every player in MLB. That’s how I made this graphic.) Here is how Adrian Gonzalez hit in his home field, San Diego’s PETCO Park in 2009. *Showing Singles (37) Doubles (12) Triples (2) and Home Runs (12) and Fly Outs (67). (He also hit 70 ground outs, which was mostly to right side of diamond.) He definitely possesses an opposite-field power.

Here is Adrian Gonzalez’ 67 fly outs in PETCO Park, and on top of it, I roughly placed a shape of Fenway Park.

So he had 40 home runs in 2009, and while I know I am foolish to think that all 13 of those would hit or went over the monster, wouldn’t it be cool to dream? Oh and by the way, 54 home runs hit by David Ortiz in 2006 is now the record for home runs hit by a Red Sox player. I’m just saying.

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