IIRC, last year, weather-wise, PNC experienced an unusual year. Where I can I find those stats - temperature, humidity, barometric pressure for games? Sure, I wouldn't know what to do with them if I found them. But I've always been surprised that a player's hitting and pitching stats are split by month, time of day, stadium, etc., and not, routinely, by temperature & other weather conditions. Is that because there's nothing to, say, the commonly-held belief that knuckleballers work better in certain conditions? Some players, who grew up near the equator, complain that they can't get loose for the April games in 45 degree weather. Is there nothing to that? Is Jason Bay, our hearty Canadian, better suited for cold-weather games? Is that part of the reason he improved after leaving San Diego? Didn't we learn that a significant part of the Coors effect was the influence of low humidity on baseballs?
To butcher Mark Twain, we talk all we want about the weather, but who is going to do something about it?
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