Current MLB ballpark · 2020 – present

Globe Life Field

Arlington, TX

Opened: 2020
Capacity: 40,000
Surface: Artificial Turf
Roof: Retractable
League: AL
Elevation: 545 ft
Orientation: 30° (NNE)
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 14,765 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	92	88
Home runs	101	94
Triples	124	87
Doubles	100	93
Singles	98	96
Walks	85	94
Strikeouts	99	101
Value on contact	97	93
Expected on contact	99	98

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±6.0 points (a 17-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	96 RHB	90 LHB
Home runs	101 RHB	101 LHB
Value on contact	99 RHB	94 LHB

7,880 right-handed and 6,884 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 ±6.0 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0111 subtracted from it, off 3,579 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

Globe Life Field: The Roof They Asked For

A next-generation ballpark in Arlington, built to keep the rain out and let the light in.

The Roof They Asked For

The Rangers proposed a retractable roof for their new ballpark because rain and weather had been pulling fans away faster than at other major metropolitan stadiums. Arlington voters approved the project in November 2016 by a 20-point margin, backing roughly half a billion dollars in bonds. The facility that opened in 2020 — designed by Bryan Trubey of HKS, a Dallas architecture firm, at a cost of $1.2 billion — carried an explicit goal: to be the first next-generation ballpark rather than another retro-style design.

The roof is the thing. It carries 223 transparent panels, and the walls are glass, so the place takes in real daylight even when closed. The turf underneath is artificial, supplied by Shaw. Center field faces northeast, a departure from the orientation of the previous Rangers ballpark. The building sits at 734 Stadium Drive, next to Texas Live!, a dining and entertainment district nestled between Globe Life Field and the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium.

A First Game That Wasn't

The park opened on May 29, 2020, for a high school graduation. The pandemic had pushed the MLB season off its calendar. When baseball arrived, on July 24, the Rangers beat the Colorado Rockies 1-0, and Joey Gallo hit the stadium's first home run two days later.

Then the building became something no ballpark had been. MLB selected it as the exclusive host for the 2020 National League Championship Series and World Series — the first neutral-site World Series in history. Roughly 25% capacity was permitted for the Fall Classic.

The Year It Mattered Most

In 2023, Globe Life Field hosted Games 1 and 2 of the World Series. The Rangers won in five games for their first championship. The 2026 season is the 7th at the park. The roof still closes when the rain comes.

Reporting: Wikipedia, AP News, MLB.com, BaseballParks.com, baseball-reference.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	329′
Left-center	372′
Center field	407′
Right-center	374′
Right field line	326′

Home club

TEX Texas Rangers

Games we’ve scored here

72 games at this park in our books — every one transcribed mark for mark, reconciled to the official line. The most recent:

…and 60 more in the scorecard archive.

Where it stands

734 Stadium Drive, Arlington, TX 76011. Open the map →

Sources

MLB StatsAPI · as of 2026-07-23
Retrosheet · as of 2026-07-23

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