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AT&T Park may be the most severe pitchers' park in the game
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor
18 AT&T Park (San Francisco, California) 0.989
30 McAfee Coliseum (Oakland, California) 0.816
Home runs go down in AT&T, but extra base hits increase, as do hits in general. Regardless, McAfee is the most severe pitcher's park this year.
You can go back several years and see that AT&T is about neutral to slightly advantageous for the pitcher. It's definitely not a severe pitcher's park with the exception of left-handed batters having a disadvantage.
I never argued that Noah Lowry was an excellent pitcher. He, too, walks too many batters and strikes out too few. However, his PAP3 is a lot lower.
Barry Zito flat out isn't good, and everyone in their right mind knew this.