Is Kauffman Stadium a Hitters Park?
Kauffman Stadium is a neutral park. It scores within 1% of an average MLB park, and allows 4% fewer home runs.
2026 park factors, three-year rolling averages. 100 = league average.
Why Kauffman Stadium plays this way
Vast outfield gaps that turn home runs into triples and reward speed over power.
Home of the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, MO, opened in 1973.
What a park factor actually means
A park factor of 99 means runs are scored 1% less often here than at an average MLB park — comparing the same teams at home and on the road, so roster quality cancels out. The home run factor of 96 does the same thing for home runs only.
The two can disagree sharply, and that is the useful part. A park can suppress home runs while inflating runs, if the wall that stops fly balls also turns them into doubles. Read both numbers before deciding what a park does to a hitter.
Parks that play like this one
See it against the rest of the league
All 30 MLB ballparks ranked by park factor →
Park factors describe the stadium, not the player. To see what a hitter or pitcher actually produced, with the same formula applied everywhere, check the NUT leaderboard.