The Arizona Diamondbacks have announced they plan to introduce a humidor at Chase Field for this season in an effort to decrease the number of home runs hit at that batter-friendly park.
For years, Chase Field has been one of baseball's friendliest havens for sluggers. Last year, the ballpark played as the fourth-easiest in baseball in which to hit a homer, according to ESPN park factors. The year before that, it was second, and in 2014, it was the seventh-easiest park in which to blast a dinger.
Now, team officials say they will begin storing baseballs inside a humidor at the stadium which will be a climate-controlled, 50% humidity, 70-degree environment, in an effort to combat the fact that Chase exists 1,059 feet above sea level (Coors Field in Colorado is at 5,211 feet) and is located in a part of the country that averages about 20% humidity.