derek jeter has the most home runs as a yankee.
derek jeter has the most home runs as a yankee.
who has the most home runs as a yankee?
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dimaggio might have had better power-hitting statistics had his home park not been yankee stadium. as "the house that ruth built", its nearby right field favored the babe's left-handed power. for right-handed hitters, its deep left and center fields made home runs almost impossible. mickey mantle recalled that he and whitey ford witnessed many dimaggio blasts that would have been home runs anywhere other than yankee stadium (ruth himself fell victim to that problem, as he also hit many long flyouts to center). bill james calculated that dimaggio lost more home runs due to his home park than any other player in history. left-center field went as far back as 457 ft [139 m], where left-center rarely reaches 380 ft [116 m] in today's ballparks. al gionfriddo's famous catch in the 1947 world series, which was close to the 415-foot mark [126 m] in left-center, would have been a home run in the yankees' current ballpark. dimaggio hit 148 home runs in 3,360 at-bats at home versus 213 home runs in 3,461 at-bats on the road. his slugging percentage at home was .546, and on the road, it was .610. statistician bill jenkinson commented on these figures:
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