MLB ballpark
Kauffman Stadium
Home of the Kansas City Royals.
How it plays
Plays close to average for runs (+4% vs a typical big-league park).
The facts
- Location
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Opened
- 1973
- Capacity
- 38,179
- Elevation
- 856 ft
- Surface
- Grass
- Roof
- Open air
- Architect
- Kivett and Myers
Field dimensions
- Left-field line
- 347 ft
- Left field
- 364 ft
- Left-center
- 379 ft
- Center field
- 410 ft
- Right-center
- 379 ft
- Right field
- 364 ft
- Right-field line
- 344 ft
How it really plays
- About 11% fewer home runs than average.
- Kinder to right-handed power: −5% home runs for them, −18% for left-handed hitters.
- A well-hit ball carries about 7 ft farther than average, mostly because of the conditions.
All hitters
- Runs
- +4%
- Home runs
- −11%
- Hits
- +4%
- Doubles
- +18%
- Triples
- +65%
- Strikeouts
- −12%
- Walks
- ±0%
Left-handed hitters
- Runs
- +4%
- Home runs
- −18%
- Hits
- +5%
- Doubles
- +24%
- Triples
- +75%
- Strikeouts
- −11%
- Walks
- −2%
Right-handed hitters
- Runs
- +4%
- Home runs
- −5%
- Hits
- +3%
- Doubles
- +13%
- Triples
- +53%
- Strikeouts
- −12%
- Walks
- +3%
Real MLB games, 2024-2026, from Baseball Savant’s Statcast park factors, compared with an average park. This is how the real park plays, not The Show’s ball physics.
In MLB The Show
Stadium items
Sources: MLB Stats API, Wikidata, Baseball Savant. Park factors are real MLB games, not The Show.