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Awesome Tool, and Beltre in Fenway

So thanks to The Book Blog I recently discovered this neat site that lets you superimpose BIP data from one player/pitcher/park onto another. Just for fun I superimposed all of Beltre's SAFECO balls in play onto Fenway to check out the results, which, unless the data is wrong, is somewhat surprising:

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According to this chart, Belre would have had approxmately 5 doubles and 1 flyout turn into home runs in Fenway last year, which is much less than what I expected. Now obviously this doesn't take into consideration weather, how a batter changes, his approach, how the Green Monster effects balls, etc., etc. But I still found it interesting.

P.S. - The same analysis on Washburn says that about 10 of his doubles and 5 of his flyouts at SAFECO would've been home runs in Fenway. Nice!