Current MLB ballpark · 2000 – present
Daikin Park
Houston, TX
Also known as Enron Field; Astros Field.
- Opened
- 2000
- Capacity
- 41,000
- Surface
- Grass
- Roof
- Retractable
- League
- NL
- Elevation
- 45 ft
- Orientation
- 343° (NNW)
- Time zone
- America/Chicago
How it plays
Every number is an index where 100 is league average. There is no such thing as one park factor — this park does different things to a triple than it does to a home run, and the only honest version is the whole row. Off 15,432 plate appearances in 2026.
| 2026 | 2024-2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs | 98 | 100 |
| Home runs | 111 | 112 |
| Triples | 115 | 83 |
| Doubles | 97 | 96 |
| Singles | 90 | 97 |
| Walks | 106 | 102 |
| Strikeouts | 112 | 107 |
| Value on contact | 102 | 103 |
| Expected on contact | 98 | 98 |
How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±1.4 points (a 4-point spread over 5 seasons). The league median is 3.0. Read a single season's figure with that much slack in it — the walls do not move, and the number does.
By the batter's side
| Runs | 100 RHB | 96 LHB |
| Home runs | 118 RHB | 102 LHB |
| Value on contact | 105 RHB | 99 LHB |
8,851 right-handed and 6,581 left-handed plate appearances — each side is half a season, so read these with at least the slack the combined figures carry — the band above is ±1.4 on twice this sample.
What FVR does about it
Every luck gap we measure at this park has +0.0010 subtracted from it, off 3,574 balls in play here this season. That is the number behind every board on this site, which is the only reason it is printed. It is not on the 100-is-average scale above: it is value on contact per ball in play, so it cannot be added to or subtracted from any index in this table. The two can even point opposite ways — Savant's runs index counts all offense, ours is only the residual against what the batted balls deserved.
Index figures: Baseball Savant, single-season and three-year rolling. What a park factor is, and is not →
The lore
The Station Still Stands
A ballpark grew out of a train depot in downtown Houston, and the depot is still the front door.
Union Station, Still Standing
The park sits where Houston's Union Station train depot stood — a building that opened in 1911, served travelers until 1974, then sat neglected for decades before the ballpark brought the block back. The station lobby is preserved as the park's entrance; the building now houses the Astros' team offices. A replica 19th-century locomotive weighing close to 50,000 pounds runs 800 feet along the west side of the park and moves when the Astros hit home runs.
The Short Porch
The Crawford Boxes in left field sit 315 feet from home plate — one of the shortest left-field lines in baseball — with seats only 19 feet above the playing surface. The park has been nicknamed "Home Run Field" and "Ten-Run Field" for the unusual frequency of home runs hit there, and the short porch and favorable hitting conditions have made it one of the more offense-friendly venues in the game. The retractable roof, designed by HOK Sports Facilities Group, fully retracts off the building to create the largest open area of any retractable-roof baseball stadium. The west wall holds 50,000 square feet of glass that frames the Houston skyline even when the roof is closed.
What Came and Went
The park opened as Enron Field in 2000. The first exhibition game on March 30 saw the Astros beat the Yankees 6-5; the first regular-season game on April 7 saw Philadelphia win 4-1. The name became Minute Maid Park in 2002 after Enron's bankruptcy, then Daikin Park in 2025. From opening day through the 2016 season, straightaway center field held Tal's Hill: a 90-foot-wide incline with a 30-degree slope and a flagpole in play, inspired by Cincinnati's Crosley Field. Tal Smith, whose name it carried, had wanted the berm in left field, but space constraints pushed it to center, where it became one of the park's most polarizing features before removal after the 2016 season.
The 2026 season is the 27th year of baseball at this park. The Astros have been the only club to call it home, and the Union Station lobby is still the entrance.
Reporting: MLB.com, Sports Illustrated, charliesballparks.com. Park data: MLB StatsAPI and Retrosheet, via the Fever engine.
By the Desk · filed 2026-07-24 — the piece reads as of its filing; the park record around it is live · every fact in this piece comes from a filed, sourced research pack and clears an independent fact-check, and nothing is edited after filing.
The dimensions
Fence distances from home plate, in feet — the same venue.fieldInfo the scorecards draw their hit charts on.
| Left field line | 315′ |
| Left-center | 362′ |
| Center field | 409′ |
| Right-center | 373′ |
| Right field line | 326′ |
Home club
Games we’ve scored here
75 games at this park in our books — every one transcribed mark for mark, reconciled to the official line. The most recent:
- 2026-09-06AZ 3 – 2 HOU
- 2026-09-05AZ 4 – 3 HOU
- 2026-09-04AZ 1 – 3 HOU
- 2026-09-03CWS 2 – 6 HOU
- 2026-09-02CWS 0 – 2 HOU
- 2026-09-01CWS 5 – 1 HOU
- 2026-08-31CWS 3 – 6 HOU
- 2026-08-23ATH 7 – 6 HOU
- 2026-08-22ATH 4 – 3 HOU
- 2026-08-21ATH 0 – 4 HOU
- 2026-08-20LAA 18 – 3 HOU
- 2026-08-19LAA 2 – 3 HOU
…and 63 more in the scorecard archive.
Where it stands
501 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77002. Open the map →
Sources
- MLB StatsAPI · as of 2026-07-23
- Retrosheet · as of 2026-07-23
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