The 16 Players most helped by their new home park

One of the big questions heading into a new season is "How will the switch in home ballparks impact players switching teams?" I've completed a somewhat simplistic analysis using the 2007 park factors and calculated the gap from old to new home park - here are the results, listed in descending order by the size of the gap in factors from the old home park to the new home park:

1. Marcus Giles (.405 factor gap)
2. Randy Wolf (.298)
3. Mike Cameron (.256)
4. Nick Swisher (.251)
5. Livan Hernandez (.244)
6. Milton Bradley (.224)
7. Torii Hunter (.218)
8. Chris Burke (.210)
9. Jose Valverde (.210)
10. Luke Scott (.208)
11. Erik Bedard (.161)
12. Adam Jones (.161)
13. Andruw Jones (.141)
14. Edgar Renteria (.139)
15. Jose Guillen (.085)
16. Lastings Milledge (.084 - using a neutral park factor of 1.000 for Nationals Park)

The most intriguing players on this list for me are Nick Swisher, Torii Hunter, and Erik Bedard - they really will have a nice 'tailwind' pushing them in their new home ballparks in 2008!