{"id":519494,"date":"2026-01-14T06:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:28:36","slug":"royals-vinnie-pasquantino-shares-honest-thoughts-on-kauffman-stadium-fences-being-moved-in-for-home-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519494\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ Vinnie Pasquantino shares honest thoughts on Kauffman Stadium fences being moved in for home runs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vinnie Pasquantino has no problem hitting the baseball out of Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n

He might get some help in the season ahead, though. The Kansas City Royals<\/a> are moving in the fences about 10 feet. It should increase home runs.<\/p>\n

And Royals fans who are wondering what the slugger thinks of it didn’t have to look far. He’s one of the most active MLB players on X (formerly Twitter), and he weighed in on this.<\/p>\n

Pasquantino’s message<\/a> was long, so we’ll break it into a few highlights here.<\/p>\n

“The K was the 6th most hitter friendly ballpark according to the park factor,” Pasquantino wrote. “Will moving the fences in make this better or worse? Hitters like hitting at the K because the visuals are nice but everyone also agrees it\u2019s been a pitchers park forever. What this means is that you can\u2019t hit cheap homers. That\u2019s literally all a hitter saying a park is a hitters park or not means.”<\/p>\n

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The suggestion here is that it already wasn’t a bad place to hit. It was just a hard place to get a medium-well hit fly ball over the wall.<\/p>\n

There were benefits to the deep fences for hitters, too.<\/p>\n

“The data firmly supports it being a hitters paradise because you can get more singles doubles and triples,” Pasquantino writes. “Will the park factor actually go down if it\u2019s more of a neutral park because there will be less triples even if there is an uptick in home runs? What will this mean for WRC+, we get punished with this stat for playing at the K now. So what will happen?”<\/p>\n

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Pasquantino wrapped up his his major thoughts.<\/p>\n

“All in all I truly believe hitters\/pitchers alike just want fairness but we play one of the only sports where the field size changes and I think that\u2019s one of the cooler things about our game,” Pasquantino wrote. “I just rambled a lot but I think it\u2019s cool the Royals were willing to make these changes to make it more of a neutral ballpark.”<\/p>\n

So he certainly doesn’t mind the changes. He also does expect it to impact the overall hitting experience, maybe in the form of more home runs and less hits of other kinds.<\/p>\n

It’ll certainly be fascinating to see how it all plays out.<\/p>\n

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