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I was messing around a bit on the Safeco scatter plot for this year, and overlaying some of the other parks. It doesn't seem, at first blush, as if just the distance is the problem. Obviously, air quality plays into it as well. For instance, if you look at this year's scatter chart, and overlay Rangers Ballpark, roughly one quarter of the home runs in Safeco this year would be long outs in Texas. I believe maybe the humidity has something to do with it?
What I was looking for was a scatter plot of home runs, as well as warning track flyouts, in various parks, just to see if there was any way to justify moving the center field fence in ten feet. Obviously, there are so many other factors to consider, that just looking at a scatter plot would not do any justice to the idea. If it is the air in Seattle that is killing the ball, then maybe the move MAY make sense. BUT, then we may be doing damage to our pitchers in the long run. I'm not sure where the happy medium is, to be honest.