MLB ballparkIn the game: Guaranteed Rate Field
Rate Field
Home of the Chicago White Sox.
How it plays
Plays close to average for runs (−2% vs a typical big-league park).
The facts
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Opened
- 1991
- Capacity
- 40,126
- Elevation
- 595 ft
- Surface
- Grass
- Roof
- Open air
- Architect
- Populous
Field dimensions
- Left-field line
- 330 ft
- Left-center
- 377 ft
- Center field
- 400 ft
- Right-center
- 372 ft
- Right-field line
- 335 ft
How it really plays
- Home runs at about the league-average rate.
- Kinder to left-handed power: +4% home runs for them, −6% for right-handed hitters.
- A well-hit ball dies about 6 ft short of average, mostly because of the conditions.
All hitters
- Runs
- −2%
- Home runs
- −2%
- Hits
- −2%
- Doubles
- −4%
- Triples
- −32%
- Strikeouts
- −2%
- Walks
- +3%
Left-handed hitters
- Runs
- −2%
- Home runs
- +4%
- Hits
- −4%
- Doubles
- −8%
- Triples
- −14%
- Strikeouts
- +1%
- Walks
- +7%
Right-handed hitters
- Runs
- −2%
- Home runs
- −6%
- Hits
- −1%
- Doubles
- −2%
- Triples
- −53%
- Strikeouts
- −4%
- Walks
- −1%
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
Called “Guaranteed Rate Field” in MLB 22, MLB 21.
Stadium items
Sources: MLB Stats API, Wikidata, Baseball Savant. Park factors are real MLB games, not The Show.