Current MLB ballpark · 1994 – present

Progressive Field

Cleveland, OH

Also known as Jacobs Field.

Opened: 1994
Capacity: 34,788
Surface: Grass
Roof: Open
League: AL
Elevation: 653 ft
Orientation: 0° (N)
Time zone: America/New_York

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 15,636 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	100	98
Home runs	87	93
Triples	83	60
Doubles	103	105
Singles	106	100
Walks	99	101
Strikeouts	105	105
Value on contact	103	100
Expected on contact	100	99

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±4.6 points (a 11-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	102 RHB	100 LHB
Home runs	83 RHB	89 LHB
Value on contact	104 RHB	102 LHB

6,491 right-handed and 9,146 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 ±4.6 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0074 subtracted from it, off 3,705 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

Progressive Field

The downtown Cleveland ballpark the Gateway Corp. built in 1994 — steel, angles, a 19-foot wall, and 33 seasons of walk-offs and sellout streaks.

The Eleventh Inning

The first regular-season game at Jacobs Field, on April 4, 1994, had the Indians trailing 2-0 through seven innings against Randy Johnson. Manny Ramirez doubled to tie it in the eighth. Wayne Kirby won it with a walk-off single in the eleventh. President Bill Clinton had thrown the ceremonial first pitch earlier that afternoon, and a new ballpark was open in downtown Cleveland — a finish that seemed to herald a new era for the franchise.

Steel and Angles

HOK Sports Facilities Group designed the park with exposed steel, vertical light towers, and seating sections uniquely angled beyond the dugouts to reflect Cleveland's architectural landscape. It was built by the Gateway Economic Development Corp., a public-private partnership that paired the ballpark with Gund Arena as part of an effort to revitalize downtown Cleveland. Construction cost $175 million — $84 million from a sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes, $91 million from owner Richard E. Jacobs, whose name the park carried until Progressive Corporation bought the naming rights in 2008. The left-field fence stands 19 feet high; center and right are eight. The surface is Kentucky bluegrass.

What Happened There

In the 1997 All-Star Game, Cleveland catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. entered as a defensive replacement in the sixth and hit a decisive two-run homer over that left-field wall in the seventh, giving the AL a 3-1 win and the MVP in his home park. The ballpark also hosted a second All-Star Game with another hometown MVP. From 1995 through April 4, 2001, the Indians sold out 455 consecutive games. In Game Two of the 2007 ALDS, swarms of midges descended on the field in the eighth inning and flustered Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain into wild pitches that scored the tying run. Travis Hafner won it in the eleventh.

The 2026 season is the 33rd year of baseball at this park. The Guardians are the club that plays there now.

Reporting: Society for American Baseball Research, MLB.com, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. 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	325′
Left field	370′
Left-center	410′
Center field	405′
Right-center	375′
Right field line	325′

Home club

CLE Cleveland Guardians

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:

…and 63 more in the scorecard archive.

Where it stands

2401 Ontario Street, Cleveland, OH 44115. Open the map →

Sources

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

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