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With this in mind, our Trend of the Day series features articles that walk subscribers through an important trend each weekday, created with our FREE Trends tool. Also, shortly after you create a trend, you will be able to see it under the “My Trends” column in our Player Models.

If you spend as much time in the Player Models as I do, it is likely that you are familiar with our Park Factor Ratings. Aside from Coors Field where all hitters have a Park Factor of 100, some other notables include lefties at Yankee Stadium (81) and lefties at Oriole Park (78). With today’s matchup between the Red Sox and Orioles taking place in Baltimore, I wanted to take a closer look at how power-lefty hitters have performed at Oriole Park.

MLB Trend of the Day: High-ISO Lefties at Oriole Park

Step 1: Player Filters > Hand > Select “L″

I elected to leave switch hitters out of this Trend because they would likely be hitting right-handed if facing a left-handed opposing pitcher. I will fill you in at the end of the article on what our results would have been if we included switch hitters.

Step 2: Team Filters > Stadium > Select “Oriole Park at Camden Yards″

Now we can see that, with a count of 2,121, left-handed hitters have scored an average of +0.29 FanDuel points above their salary-based expectations. It is not a surprise that targeting lefties in Baltimore isn’t the worst idea, but let’s take a look at power hitters more specifically.

Step 3: Stat Split Filters > ISO Split > Set to “.250 to 1.5″

Our count has dropped significantly, but the Plus/Minus of +0.89 is nice to see. Targeting high-ISO left-handed hitters in Baltimore – sign me up.

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If you were curious what would have happened if we included switch hitters, the count would have increased to 334 and our Plus/Minus would have dropped to +0.82. To be more certain that those hitters were hitting left-handed, we could add a filter to narrow our results to include only games in which the opposing pitcher was right handed. In that case, we would have had a count of 237 and a +1.10 Plus/Minus. Not too bad if you ask me. Any way you slice it, our current matches for today would remain the same:

Good luck today!