How the Colorado Rockies would actually perform in a season at a neutral site

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The thing you should take from this is that playing at a neutral site would not be detrimental to the Rockies, rather it’s more likely to be beneficial to them. The traditional stats aren’t going to be as friendly, but that’s not what you should be looking at in a scenario like this. A six-point increase in wRC+ should be expected, though the actual number may vary a couple points either way.

Are the comparisons I’ve provided here going to be exactly how each player would perform? Probably not exactly and you should still take them with a grain of salt, but they should give you a basic idea of how players like Arenado, Blackmon, and Story would actually perform away from Coors.

We’ve got plenty of examples of Rockies players getting better once they no longer call Coors their home and those players need to be viewed closer than simply looking at splits.

So while we wait for a decision on if we’ll even have a 2020 season, let’s ease up on the idea that playing at neutral sites would hurt the Rockies. We’ve got the data that proves otherwise. Let’s use it.