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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
You’re right - it’s a lot of things.
The PCL has a bunch of friendly hitting environments (park size, local climate making the ball fly, the ball, the league having a lot of guys too good for the minors but not quite good enough for The Shpw).
The Carolina league is a pitchers league because it is primarily northeastern, so the weather sucks, and you’ve got a bunch of big, old parks.
Believe Wilmington has some sort of mountains affect that makes the ball travel like crap in the air.
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The only contribution I can really make here is this: You'd be hard pressed to call anything this side of the Appalachians, "Mountains". And they're
way west of here. The park kind of sits below and next to I-95, with a river on the other side, in an area that was probably swamp before the mid 20th Century. Maybe it's just heavy, shitty air or something, I don't know.