Let’s win this year first, then worry about this winter.

I agree. This isn’t an either or question.

It literally gets down to this – how much?

How much of a disproportionate advantage do you want to give LH hitters.

That’s it.

LH hitters had an advantage in the old stadium. That was clear. They have a diproportionate advantage in the new stadium but it appears to be even larger.

So it’s a question of how big you want that disadvantage.

And I have a feeling that if the team were to happen to let Matsui go, Damon gets a 3 year deal somewhere else and the team signs Holliday and DH’s montero next year lots and lots of yankee fans aren’t going to be real happy with the way the stadium plays.

And on jeter – I’m sure that short porch influenced his swing.

But I’m also pretty certain that that inside out swing feels right to him – his entire hitting strategy is built on it.

And I’m also pretty sure most players – even very talented ones – don’t have Jeter’s bat control so they wouldn’t necessarily be able to leverage the stadium as well as Jeter has.

There’s a reason why Jeter has so many HR as a RH hitter in the new stadium but Mark Teixeira has so few as a RH hitter. They just have very different swings.

And on a side note – part of why people are now so happy with the way the stadium is playing that they are taking for granted is Alex Rodriguez’s historically great talent as a RH hitter.

The yankees offense happens to be anchored at the current time by a RH hitter for whom park dimensions are a secondary concern because when he’s at his best he’s hitting home runs to the deepest part of the playing field and that makes dimensions largely irrelevant.

That’s not a real reproducible skill set. Ask David Wright about that.

It’s an interesting debate. But to me it’s a question of how much advantage is the “right” amount.

the team has to always grow, find, import, draft, sign and collect a couple of left hand hitting sluggers and left handed pitchers. the more things change the more they remain the same.

Dustin Pedroia hit the first opposite field home run of his life there. You’d be OK if that cost you a game? If the Yankees lose a playoff game because some .230 hitting shortstop dumps a pop up into the first row in right field, you all will lose your minds.

They need to make it reasonable, that’s all. The Yankees will still hit plenty of homers. They just need to take away the cheapies and make the dimensions truly what they were across the street. That’s all.

Some Yankee fans have really disliked the new stadium because of the “different dimensions” and IMO it’s mainly because they get tired of announcers/people in the media trashing the Yankees for their hitter friendly ball park. I think this is funny since the majority of us have already come to the conclusion that a lot of people in the media (announcers in particular) are a bunch of blow hard sheep, yet the affect our opinions anyway.

I had only been to the old park once and I’ve recently been to the new one for my first time. IMO the RF fence being 5 feet shorter is just about the only thing to complain about (for some) which is a good thing IMO, especially since it’s not worth complaining about.