Is Rate Field a Hitters Park?
Yes. Rate Field is a hitters park. It scores 4% more runs than an average MLB park and allows 12% more home runs.
2026 park factors, three-year rolling averages. 100 = league average.
Why Rate Field plays this way
Symmetrical dimensions with a low wall and summer wind off the South Side that carries out.
Home of the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, IL, opened in 1991.
What a park factor actually means
A park factor of 104 means runs are scored 4% more 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 112 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.