Career Home Run Rate Home/Road Percent Difference.

Home Sweet Home: Met Ott, 45% better Home Run rate at home, the best by far among the 29 players with at least 493 career Home Runs. Others with big positives at home: Thomas (33.55%), Foxx, Robinson, Thome, Palmiero,

David Ortiz has the biggest home disadvantage: -27%. The others with negative rates at home: Williams, Pujols, Mathews, Murray.

Jim Rice and Joe DiMaggio are tossed in at the bottom for interest.

Click this link to view data in the Matrix, which is also below but I have a techie issue with Google Docs Spreadsheets about the format in these posts. I just discovered this small window into the spreadsheet, which is cool:


Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to stretch it into something functionally useful. %Dif is the important column below.

		Tot	Tot	Home	Home	Road	Road	Tot	Home	Road	H-R	%Dif
Rk	Name	HR	AB	HR	AB	HR	AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	Name	Rk
1	Barry Bonds	762	9,847	379	4,757	383	5,090	.0774	.0797	.0752	.0044	5.56%	Barry Bonds	1
2	Hank Aaron	755	12,364	385	5,968	370	6,396	.0611	.0645	.0578	.0067	10.33%	Hank Aaron	2
3	Babe Ruth	714	8,399	347	4,035	367	4,364	.0850	.0860	.0841	.0019	2.21%	Babe Ruth	3
4	Alex Rodriguez	696	10,566	354	5,223	342	5,343	.0659	.0678	.0640	.0038	5.56%	Alex Rodriguez	4
5	Willie Mays	660	10,881	335	5,238	325	5,643	.0607	.0640	.0576	.0064	9.95%	Willie Mays	5
6	Ken Griffey	630	9,801	332	4,732	298	5,069	.0643	.0702	.0588	.0114	16.21%	Ken Griffey	6
7	Jim Thome	612	8,422	339	4,189	273	4,233	.0727	.0809	.0645	.0164	20.31%	Jim Thome	7
8	Sammy Sosa	609	8,813	321	4,333	288	4,480	.0691	.0741	.0643	.0098	13.22%	Sammy Sosa	8
9	Albert Pujols	591	9,138	277	4,455	314	4,683	.0647	.0622	.0671	-.0049	-7.84%	Albert Pujols	9
10	Frank Robinson	586	10,006	321	4,779	265	5,227	.0586	.0672	.0507	.0165	24.52%	Frank Robinson	10
11	Mark McGwire	583	6,187	285	3,009	298	3,178	.0942	.0947	.0938	.0009	1.00%	Mark McGwire	11
12	Harmon Killebrew	573	8,147	291	3,935	282	4,212	.0703	.0740	.0670	.0070	9.47%	Harmon Killebrew	12
13	Rafael Palmeiro	569	10,472	311	5,135	258	5,337	.0543	.0606	.0483	.0122	20.18%	Rafael Palmeiro	13
14	Reggie Jackson	563	9,864	280	4,799	283	5,065	.0571	.0583	.0559	.0025	4.24%	Reggie Jackson	14
15	Manny Ramirez	555	8,244	282	4,016	273	4,228	.0673	.0702	.0646	.0056	8.05%	Manny Ramirez	15
16	Mike Schmidt	548	8,352	265	4,020	283	4,332	.0656	.0659	.0653	.0006	0.90%	Mike Schmidt	16
17	David Ortiz	541	8,640	241	4,370	300	4,270	.0626	.0551	.0703	-.0151	-27.40%	David Ortiz	17
18	Mickey Mantle	536	8,102	266	3,970	270	4,132	.0662	.0670	.0653	.0017	2.48%	Mickey Mantle	18
19	Jimmie Foxx	534	8,134	299	3,884	235	4,250	.0657	.0770	.0553	.0217	28.17%	Jimmie Foxx	19
20	Frank Thomas	521	8,199	312	4083	209	4,116	.0635	.0764	.0508	.0256	33.55%	Frank Thomas	20
21	Ted Williams	521	7,706	248	3887	273	3,819	.0676	.0638	.0715	-.0077	-12.04%	Ted Williams	21
22	Willie McCovey	521	8,197	264	3907	257	4,290	.0636	.0676	.0599	.0077	11.34%	Willie McCovey	22
23	Eddie Mathews	512	8,537	238	4088	274	4,449	.0600	.0582	.0616	-.0034	-5.78%	Eddie Mathews	23
24	Ernie Banks	512	9,421	290	4734	222	4,687	.0543	.0613	.0474	.0139	22.68%	Ernie Banks	24
25	Mel Ott	511	9,456	323	4576	188	4,880	.0540	.0706	.0385	.0321	45.42%	Mel Ott	25
26	Gary Sheffield	509	9,217	262	4515	247	4,702	.0552	.0580	.0525	.0055	9.47%	Gary Sheffield	26
27	Eddie Murray	504	11,336	242	5532	262	5,804	.0445	.0437	.0451	-.0014	-3.19%	Eddie Murray	27
28	Fred McGriff	493	8,757	241	4245	252	4,512	.0563	.0568	.0559	.0009	1.62%	Fred McGriff	28
29	Lou Gehrig	493	8,001	251	3861	242	4,140	.0616	.0650	.0585	.0066	10.08%	Lou Gehrig	29
		Tot	Tot	Home	Home	Road	Road	Tot	Home	Road	H-R	%Dif
Rk	Name	HR	AB	HR	AB	HR	AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	HR/AB	Name	Rk
	Max	762	12,364	385	5,968	383	6,396	.0942	.0947	.0938	.0321	45.42%	Mel Ott	25
	Min	493	6,187	238	3,009	188	3,178	.0445	.0437	.0385	-.0151	-27.40%	David Ortiz	17
	Ave	576	9,076	296	4,423	280	4,653	0	0	0	0	8.97%
	Jim Rice	382	8,225	208	4,075	174	4,150	.0464	.0510	.0419	.0091	17.86%	Jim Rice
	Joe DiMaggio	361	6,821	148	3,360	213	3,461	.0529	.0440	.0615	-.0175	-39.72%	Joe DiMaggio

Mel Ott:

I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE	BAbip	tOPS+
	Home	1367	1282	5600	4576	953	1360	182	21	323	948	50	25	955	430	.297	.422	.558	.980	2553	38	31	32		49	56	.271	106
	Away	1363	1256	5748	4879	904	1516	306	51	188	917	43	21	765	466	.311	.408	.510	.918	2488	42	33	53		29	47	.314	94

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/13/2017.