The Cardinals’ search for more offense has them looking not only to their lineup but to the place that lineup plays: Busch Stadium.
Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch reported on Sunday that the Cardinals were “exploring internally how their downtown ballpark has become detrimental to their offense” and if changing the dimensions of the park could “correct a competitive disadvantage.”
Those changes could include bringing in the walls to encourage more home runs and changing the angles of the outfield wall to facilitate more doubles.
The working theory is that the new high-rise constructions around the ballpark – including Ballpark Village Phase 2 – have changed the weather dynamics of the park.