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Stop and think about what's being discussed for a moment. Before he came back to Seattle, Ra(7u)l Ibanez was pretty pull-conscious. After getting here, he became a spray hitter. John Olerud was always kind of a spray hitter with his best work going to LCF if I remember correctly. The only lefties who rake to RF seem to be road teams in Safeco...
Is it as simple as every pitching staff pitches away to the lefties, so what we ACTUALLY want is Ryan Howard, who gets more than half of his HR's to straightaway left (or something silly like that)? Would that, in turn, cause the pitchers to come inside and let him take advantage of the RF fence, or will it just mean that instead of 25 home dingers he gets 17?