Current MLB ballpark · 1989 – present

Rogers Centre

Toronto, ON · Canada

Also known as Skydome.

Rogers Centre, 2024 — New York Mets at Toronto Blue Jays (11 September 2024) — Rogers Centre, 2024 · JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · license read 2026-07-24

Opened: 1989
Capacity: 39,150
Surface: Artificial Turf
Roof: Retractable
League: AL
Elevation: 270 ft
Orientation: 345° (NNW)
Time zone: America/Toronto

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 15,501 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	96	102
Home runs	97	106
Triples	52	68
Doubles	98	103
Singles	101	100
Walks	100	99
Strikeouts	102	98
Value on contact	98	100
Expected on contact	98	100

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±2.6 points (a 7-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	98 RHB	96 LHB
Home runs	95 RHB	99 LHB
Value on contact	97 RHB	99 LHB

8,180 right-handed and 7,321 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 ±2.6 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0050 subtracted from it, off 3,646 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 Building That Moves

The Blue Jays' home since 1989, built around a patented retractable roof that drew early skepticism and still runs.

The Thing That Moves

Architects Rod Robbie and Michael Allen designed the building and patented its retractable roof system. The roof has four panels — three slide along rails while one remains stationary. Together they cover 339,343 square feet, stand 282 feet tall at the highest point, and weigh 11,000 tonnes. That is the weight that moves every time the sky opens over the field below.

There was early skepticism about whether the ambitious design would hold up. The technology operated flawlessly on opening day in 1989 and has continued to function since. The park was built in downtown Toronto near Union Station, a site chosen to capitalize on existing public transit connections instead of surface parking. The Blue Jays have been the only major-league tenant — first under the name SkyDome, later as Rogers Centre — and the 2026 season is the 38th season of baseball at this park.

Closed Air, Symmetrical Fences

The dimensions run symmetrical: 328 feet down both lines, 375 to the gaps, 404 to dead center, on artificial turf. The park holds 49,282. What shapes the game inside those fences has less to do with the distances than with the roof's position. The park generally favors hitters, and the ball travels well when the roof is closed — which, through a Toronto spring and into the early summer, is often.

The building filled up fast. In 1991, the Blue Jays became the first baseball team to attract four million fans in a single season at the venue. That same year the park hosted the All-Star Game, a 4–2 American League victory. Two seasons later, Game 6 of the 1993 World Series: Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run against the Philadelphia Phillies to win the championship, one of baseball's most famous moments at the stadium.

The roof still opens and closes on its rails, 38 seasons in — the same mechanism Robbie and Allen patented.

Reporting: SABR, Wikipedia, MLB.com, Baseball Reference, The Globe and Mail. Park data: MLB StatsAPI and Retrosheet, via the Fever engine.

Since we filed

2026-07-24

A correction to what we filed. The capacity given above — 49,282 — is the pre-renovation figure, and it was already out of date when the piece was filed. A two-stage renovation of roughly $400 million, completed in 2024, turned the multi-purpose SkyDome into a ballpark-first venue and cut seating to 39,150 (41,500 for the 2023 season, then 39,150 for 2024). The field dimensions and the retractable roof are unchanged.

Reporting: MLB.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	328′
Left-center	375′
Center field	404′
Right-center	375′
Right field line	328′

Home club

TOR Toronto Blue Jays

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

1 Blue Jays Way, Suite 3200, Toronto, ON M5V1J1. Open the map →

Sources

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

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