Unleash Your Inner Babe Ruth: Discover Pro Tips for Crushing Home Runs!

If readers have been following along with how I typically operate when researching team and player-level data, it usually leads us toward an unexpected path. To peek behind the curtain, often the research leads us toward questions that may or may not have data to support the hypothesis. Though the plan was to examine one stat from every MLB team for fantasy baseball purposes, it turned into a few stats for every team, especially since we examined some player-level information.

[ Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season ] As we mentioned in a previous article , fantasy baseball leagues or weeks (head-to-head formats) can be won or lost when finding those outliers. That said, most of these team-level stats were notable as high or low based on plate discipline, batted ball data, pull rates, bat speed and pitch usage across MLB. This is a beefy one, so it might take some time to digest.

Here’s the American League. You can check out the National League story here . Athletics At Sutter Health Park, the Athletics had the sixth-best home run park factor (112) in 2025.

That’s significantly higher than the Oakland Coliseum, which ranked 28th in home run park factor (84). The Athletics were seventh in home runs as one of nine teams with 200 or more in 2025. They had five hitters with 20 or more home runs, including three with 30 or more.