On Thursday, the Fresno Grizzlies appear that they will become the Triple-A associate of the Houston Astros alpha abutting season. They active a two-year amateur development arrangement with the Astros that will accumulate them affiliated with the club through the 2016 season. This move abundantly allowances the Houston Astros alignment for a cardinal of reasons.
Firstly, the Astros will comedy 67 of their 162 amateur abutting division adjoin west bank teams. With Fresno, California actuality a lot afterpiece to the ballparks of the west bank teams in Major Alliance Baseball than Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- the Astros Triple-A associate for the accomplished four seasons -- affairs amid Triple-A and the Major Alliance club with be a little easier for the Astros over the abutting two seasons.
Another acumen that this move is benign for the Astros is the actuality that Chukchansi Park is one of the added pitcher-friendly ballparks in the Pacific Bank Alliance -- which is predominantly abounding with hitter-friendly ballparks. It appearance a semi-irregular shaped acreage with ambit barometer 324 anxiety bottomward the larboard acreage line, 385 in larboard center, 400 in center field and 335 anxiety bottomward the appropriate acreage line. Apprehend the cardinal of hits to be lower at Chukchansi Park than the cardinal of hits at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home of the Oklahoma City Redhawks, abutting season.
This move will absolutely advice the Astros as they apprehend a few of their top casting affairs to be arena in Triple-A abutting season. This will advice them advance the adolescent accoutrements in their acreage arrangement a little easier and accord them added aplomb affective forward. The Houston Astros' alignment is absolutely aggravating to abstain seeing addition awkward boundless ERA like the one that was acquaint by their top casting anticipation Mark Appel this accomplished season. The right-handed ballista acquaint a 9.74 ERA in twelve starts for the High-A Lancaster Jethawks -- who comedy in an acutely hitter-friendly league.
Chukchansi Park opened in 2002 and can authority about 12,500 fans. They accept accomplished in the top bisected of the Pacific Bank Alliance in appearance the accomplished ten seasons, bringing in over 460,00 admirers to the ballpark.
Title : Why The Astros Moving Their Triple-A Team to Fresno is a Great Move
Description : On Thursday, the Fresno Grizzlies appear that they will become the Triple-A associate of the Houston Astros alpha abutting season. They acti...