Ready for yet another Baseball Hall of Fame debate?
During Wednesday night’s Phillies-Rockies broadcast, ESPN analyst Nomar Garciaparra used a debate about Todd Helton‘s Hall of Fame credentials to launch his new platform: that the humidor of Coors Field should actually be illegal.
“You don’t adjust the equipment because of the ballpark. If there’s an issue with the ballpark, you shouldn’t have a ballpark there,” Garciaparra said, according to LarryBrownSports.com.
Located in Denver, Colo., Coors Field is known for its mile-high elevation. In response to the seemingly high home run rates, Major League Baseball installed a humidor in 2002 where the Rockies had to store all of their baseballs. But according to Garciaparra, this humidor should not be permitted.
“If you’re going to have to adjust — because it happens to be in a place where there’s altitude — then you’re going to have to make adjustments to all the ballparks,” Garciaparra said. ‘”Well it doesn’t count because Fenway’s wall is so much closer than somewhere else. Right field at Yankee Stadium, maybe we’ll use balls that don’t count when they fly out that far, we’ll use a humidor there.'”
“You’re going to have start making adjustments,” he added, “so this shouldn’t happen just because of the surroundings of a ballpark.”
