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While there is plenty of uncertainty about how Sutter Health Park in Sacramento will play relative to the Coliseum, it seems that David Forst and company are building the team’s capacity to keep the ball in the the A’s new park in 2025.
Jason Burke at SI.com notes that the A’s recently acquired—or re-signed—are “elite” at inducing the ground ball.
A’s reliever T.J. McFarland has long been a ground ball poster child, hence his high compatibility with the unquestionably pitcher-friendly Oakland Coliseum.