It has been pointed out a few times that the pitches at the K are a little high and I decided to look to see if it was true.
First, I had someone at the stadium check to see if the speed displayed was close to the Pitch F/X data. It was dead on for the 20 pitches selected.
I took the average and max fastball speeds for all starters (Bannister, Greinke, Hochevar and Davies) that have had 2 games at home and 2 away. I averaged the home and away number and then took the difference of these two numbers. Here is the data.
| 4 Seam Fastball (mph) | ||||||||
| Avg | Max | Avg | Max | Diff in Avg | Diff in Max | |||
| Greinke | Home | 93.52 | 97.6 | Away | 91.24 | 94 | ||
| Greinke | Home | 93.55 | 95.6 | Away | 92.31 | 95.7 | ||
| Greinke | Home | 93.05 | 95.8 | - | - | - | ||
| - | - | 93.37 | 96.33 | - | 91.78 | 94.85 | 1.6 | 1.48 |
| Hochevar | Home | 95.21 | 97.2 | Away | 92.71 | 94.1 | ||
| Hochevar | Home | 95.49 | 97.4 | Away | 92.19 | 93.9 | ||
| - | - | 95.35 | 97.3 | - | 92.45 | 94 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| Bannister | Home | 89.75 | 92 | Away | 88.27 | 90.8 | ||
| Bannister | Home | 90.25 | 92.7 | Away | 88.52 | 89.8 | ||
| - | - | 90 | 92.35 | - | 88.4 | 90.3 | 1.61 | 2.05 |
| Davies | Home | 92.7 | 95.2 | Away | 91.97 | 93.8 | ||
| Davies | Home | 92.34 | 94.4 | Away | 90.89 | 92.2 | ||
| - | - | 92.52 | 94.8 | - | 91.43 | 93 | 1.09 | 1.8 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.8 | 2.16 |
It looks like the K is about 2 mph faster than the other stadiums visited so far this season.