The Reds have crazy home/road splits, just not the way you’d think

And now they take their act to Coors Field!

According to Baseball Savant, there’s not a ball park in Major League Baseball with a higher HR park factor than Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park. At least, that’s according to the three-year rolling metric, which gives GABP a 127 for dingers on location.

As for overall park factor, their 103 mark ranks third overall, behind only Denver’s Coors Field (112) and Boston’s Fenway Park (105).

Offense - at home - has been something the Cincinnati Reds have had to juggle for years, its cozy confines and proclivity to induce homers something their pitchers have loathed and hitters have loved, for the most part. It would then stand to reason that an offense that’s up and coming like that of Cincinnati’s would hit better in the ball park in which they’re scheduled to play 81 games this year than the other, less-friendly colosseums around the continent.

That, though, hasn’t been at all the case so far in 2025.

As of Thursday’s day off, the Reds currently hold a .763 OPS in road games so far this year, that mark the third best of any team in the game. Their .340 OBP ranks third, too, as does their .338 wOBA.

Meanwhile, their team OPS in games in GABP this year sits at a meager .658, the fifth worst of all MLB teams in 2025. That’s not a park-adjusted number, either, and their 75 wRC+ in home games so far this year ranks as the third worst overall mark of any club.

Odds are, this is just an incredibly small sample size and it will sort itself out in a more realistic manner as the season drags on. There’s also the 24-run blowout in Baltimore that’s baked into this small sample (including the pile-on against their position players pitching), but they also dropped a 14-run hammer on the Texas Rangers at home early on, too.

Still, it’s a bit jarring to see a club that calls such a run-producing (and home run producing) environment ‘home’ ranked so low in some of these categories while having produced quite well on the road so far.

That brings us to the schedule, which will take Cincinnati to Coors Field to face off against the Colorado Rockies over the weekend, a club that entered their doubleheader on Thursday at just 4-18 on the season so far. One would therefore hope that they’d take these already unexpected splits and skew them even further into the unexpected direction with some high-altitude, high-octane offense all weekend long.

Stats via MLB’s Baseball Savant and FanGraphs