Larry Walker and Todd Helton: home/road HR splits in big Colorado seasons.

Larry Walker and Todd Helton share the Colorado Rockies season record for home runs (HR) at 49.

Friday, January 31, 2014  Larry Walker: would he be more suspicious to steroid zealots if he had hit 62 homers in 1997?

Walker had a shockingly better HR rate (at bats (AB)/HR) on the road in his 49 HR season.  I decided to check the splits for both Walker and Helton in some of their best HR seasons in Colorado.

		home	home	home	road	road	road
		AB	HR	AB/HR	AB	HR	AB/HR	AB	HR	AB/HR
Walker	1995	248	24	10.33	246	12	20.50	494	36	13.72
Walker	1997	302	20	15.10	266	29	9.17	568	49	11.59
Walker	1999	232	26	8.92	206	11	18.73	438	37	11.84
Walker	2001	251	20	12.55	246	18	13.67	497	38	13.08
Helton	1999	296	23	12.87	282	12	23.50	578	35	16.51
Helton	2000	302	27	11.19	278	15	18.53	580	42	13.81
Helton	2001	297	27	11.00	290	22	13.18	587	49	11.98

On the road Walker's 1997 HR rate is by far the best for either player.  It's second only to Walker's 1999 home HR rate.

Saturday, May 25, 2013  OPS road v. home

For me this pretty much demolishes any Hall of Fame talk about Larry Walker and Todd Helton, both tainted by the altitude friendly park in Colorado with home OPS percent advantages of 23%.  Walker played 10 of 17 seasons in Colorado, Helton all 17.