Is Target Field a Hitters Park?
Target Field is a neutral park. It scores within 1% of an average MLB park, and allows 4% more home runs.
2026 park factors, three-year rolling averages. 100 = league average.
Why Target Field plays this way
Neutral dimensions where the weather does the work — cold early, live in midsummer.
Home of the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis, MN, opened in 2010.
What a park factor actually means
A park factor of 100 means this park scores exactly as many runs as an average MLB park — comparing the same teams at home and on the road, so roster quality cancels out. The home run factor of 104 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.