Welcome to the Rotowire Prospect Podcast.

I'm your host James Anderson, and today's guest is my friend Matt Eddie, the executive editor of Baseball America.

And got a fun episode for you today.

It's honestly one of my least favorite times of the year to talk about specific prospects just because

the amount of excitement versus the amount of sample size we have is always just so far out of whack this time of year

and I'd been wanting to have an episode talking about minor league park factors for a while.

And I actually kind of threw that out in a recent episode.

And I got multiple people saying they wanted to hear that episode.

And I could think of no one better than Matt to break it down with me because Matt puts together the minor league park factors articles every year of baseball America that I reference basically all year until the next one comes out so great to have Matt with me today

Matt how would you kind of say that baseball America or just yourself I guess calculate

these these park factors yeah well first of all, it's great to be here again.

Yeah, the park factors that I create are, I would call them, very unsophisticated.

There's simply a comparison of home results versus road results.

Take all the runs scored and allowed in each park, and then compare that

with the same figures for road games.

That gives you an idea of how much the home park inflates or de-plates run scored.

And for this exercise, I prepared 2022 and plus 2023 data to give us a pretty good sample.

Yeah, it's a really cool spreadsheet you put together here.

Unfortunately, I won't be sharing it with the listeners, but I'm thinking this could be

maybe an evergreen kind of a podcast episode,

just because there's so many people that listen to the podcast that I know kind of keep their own

prospect rankings, whether it's maybe they've got a site or they're on Twitter,

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