Current MLB ballpark · 2009 – present

Yankee Stadium

Bronx, NY

Opened: 2009
Capacity: 47,309
Surface: Grass
Roof: Open
League: AL
Elevation: 55 ft
Orientation: 75° (ENE)
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 14,650 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	104	102
Home runs	121	118
Triples	92	74
Doubles	112	96
Singles	89	91
Walks	107	114
Strikeouts	107	103
Value on contact	105	101
Expected on contact	106	103

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±2.9 points (a 8-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	112 LHB
Home runs	105 RHB	136 LHB
Value on contact	100 RHB	110 LHB

6,823 right-handed and 7,827 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 ±2.9 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0131 subtracted from it, off 3,262 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

One Block North

The park that opened in 2009 on the old Macombs Dam Park site, built to recall a building one block south — and the ground that became its own.

The Frieze

The upper deck at Yankee Stadium is lined with a white frieze — steel coated with zinc to keep the rust off — that doubles as structural support for the top deck and roof lighting. It does a real job, and it was put there to echo the 1923 ballpark. The new park opened in April 2009 on 24 acres that had been Macombs Dam Park, one block north of the original stadium's location, cost about $1.5 billion to construct, and was designed to evoke the 1923 stadium's design.

What Carried Over

Before the first regular-season at-bat on Opening Day 2009, the bat Babe Ruth used to hit his first home run in 1923 was set on home plate. The Yankees then lost 10-2 to Cleveland and Cliff Lee. Jorge Posada hit the stadium's first Yankee home run. Grady Sizemore hit the first grand slam. A cutout in the right-field wall lets fans watch the elevated train rumble past, another view borrowed from the older park across the way.

The dimensions run 318 down the left-field line, 399 to left-center, 408 to center, 385 to right-center, and 314 to right — close to the old park's numbers, but the right-field fence takes a sharp, nearly straight angle where the original curved, producing differences of up to 9 feet at certain points. The ground is its own.

Eighteen Seasons

The park hosted a World Series in its first year. The Yankees dropped Game 1 to Philadelphia 6-1 on October 28, then won the Series four games to two, clinching with a 7-3 win in Game 6 on November 4. That same season Derek Jeter passed Lou Gehrig as the Yankees' all-time hit leader with his 2,722nd hit, and in July 2011 he became the first Yankee to reach 3,000 — all collected with the franchise. New York City FC has used the stadium as an interim home venue since 2015. The 2026 season is the 18th season of baseball at this park.

Reporting: Wikipedia, New York Times, New York Post. 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	318′
Left-center	399′
Center field	408′
Right-center	385′
Right field line	314′

Home club

NYY New York Yankees

Games we’ve scored here

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

…and 56 more in the scorecard archive.

Where it stands

One East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451. Open the map →

Sources

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

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