T-Mobile Park, the batter’s eye: a new perspective

May 8 2025 by Lookout Landing

 

When you stare into the batter’s eye in Seattle, something unfamiliar stares back.

What a batter sees at T-Mobile Park changes within a game and season.

Last year, I tested batter vision at T-Mobile Parking using the position of the sun. My premise was that if there is an issue with vision, we should see performance change as light changes in the stadium. I found the sun to be a strong predictor of performance overall and discovered a spike in whiff rate just after sunset. I...

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