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Fangraphs haven't updated their park factor table to include 2019, but ESPN has and they make Marlins Park the hardest place to hit homers overall for 2018 and 2019. The Giants home field - Oracle Park ranks second in both years and Oakland Coliseum where the Athletics play their home game comes in third.

Coors Field is widely regarded as the best hitters' ballpark, but TD Ballpark is quickly rivalling Coors Field as the best stadium in baseball for a right-handed hitter. Since 2008, TD Ballpark ranks third overall for the highest ballpark batting average at . 276 (only one point behind Sahlen Field at . 277).May 23, 2021

PNC Park, the home of the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates since 2001, has hosted one no-hitter, which is one more than the team's longtime home of Forbes Field from 1909-1970. (Note that Three Rivers stadium, the ballpark between these two, hosted three no-nos.)

12. Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) With the deepest center field of any park in baseball—one that features a flagpole and hill that are in play—you'd think that Minute Maid Park in Houston would be more of a pitcher's park than a hitter's park.

By all sources, Kauffman Stadium is at a minimum neutral, with a few sites leaning towards hitter friendly/pitcher unfriendly. ... At one time in the early 2000s, Kauffman was firmly a hitters park after the fences were moved in in 1995.Jan 4, 2019

Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox

Fenway Park opened in 1912 and remains the oldest Major League Baseball stadium still in use. The park has the shortest distance of any field in baseball to left field (310 feet) or right field (302 feet). In left field and left center field stands the Green Monster, at 37' 2" tall.

Oakland, California, U.S. Oakland Ballpark is a proposed ballpark to be built in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland, California. It is proposed as the new home of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball.

No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. A tremendous blast by any standards. In a single game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league players hit in a career!

The Green Monster is famous for preventing home runs on many line drives that would clear the walls of other ballparks. A side effect of this is to increase the prevalence of doubles, since this is the most common result when the ball is hit off the wall (often referred to as a "wallball double").