I looked into this because I saw that Mel Ott walked 955 times in home games but only 765 in away games (and he had more PAs in away games). He hit 323 HRs in home games and 188 away. So maybe opponents wanted to be careful with him at the Polo Grounds where it was only 257 feet down the RF line (Ott batted left-handed).
I had Stathead call up all the players with 2,500+ PAs in both home and away games. Then I only looked at guys that were on both lists (924). Then I calculated walk% as walks/PAs
Here are the top 33 in Home walk%/Away walk%. I went down to 33 because Ott was 33rd. Tillie Walker and Rondell White are outliers. Walker hit 79 of his 118 HRs at home. White hit 124 of his 198 HRs in away games. So maybe there is no pattern.
Player |
Home BB% |
Away BB% |
H/R ratio |
Tillie Walker |
0.089 |
0.054 |
1.659 |
Rondell White |
0.077 |
0.047 |
1.638 |
Cy Seymour |
0.073 |
0.052 |
1.398 |
Chick Hafey |
0.085 |
0.061 |
1.389 |
Mike Lowell |
0.098 |
0.071 |
1.386 |
Barry Larkin |
0.120 |
0.087 |
1.376 |
Elston Howard |
0.075 |
0.054 |
1.373 |
Alexei RamÃrez |
0.055 |
0.040 |
1.369 |
Hal Chase |
0.039 |
0.029 |
1.364 |
Tito Fuentes |
0.057 |
0.042 |
1.355 |
Juan Samuel |
0.076 |
0.056 |
1.345 |
Andre Dawson |
0.063 |
0.047 |
1.341 |
Al Simmons |
0.074 |
0.056 |
1.336 |
Tony Armas |
0.054 |
0.040 |
1.336 |
Cy Williams |
0.102 |
0.077 |
1.333 |
Bill Virdon |
0.077 |
0.058 |
1.327 |
Marlon Byrd |
0.071 |
0.054 |
1.317 |
Les Mann |
0.071 |
0.054 |
1.309 |
Mark Kotsay |
0.089 |
0.068 |
1.308 |
Bobby Doerr |
0.114 |
0.087 |
1.308 |
Luis Aparicio |
0.074 |
0.057 |
1.301 |
Jimmie Wilson |
0.078 |
0.060 |
1.298 |
Bob Boone |
0.092 |
0.071 |
1.298 |
Granny Hamner |
0.063 |
0.049 |
1.287 |
Darryl Hamilton |
0.107 |
0.083 |
1.287 |
Jim Gilliam |
0.141 |
0.109 |
1.287 |
Mark Loretta |
0.096 |
0.074 |
1.286 |
Gary Carter |
0.106 |
0.082 |
1.285 |
Jerry Lumpe |
0.088 |
0.068 |
1.284 |
Roy Hartzell |
0.098 |
0.077 |
1.283 |
Francisco Lindor |
0.097 |
0.075 |
1.282 |
Jeff Heath |
0.119 |
0.093 |
1.282 |
Mel Ott |
0.171 |
0.133 |
1.281 |
Now the bottom 33
Player |
Home BB% |
Away BB% |
H/R ratio |
Neifi Perez |
0.038 |
0.046 |
0.810 |
Nick Markakis |
0.087 |
0.104 |
0.842 |
Jim Northrup |
0.079 |
0.093 |
0.850 |
Torii Hunter |
0.063 |
0.073 |
0.867 |
George McBride |
0.062 |
0.071 |
0.869 |
Bill Bradley |
0.041 |
0.047 |
0.876 |
Lonny Frey |
0.110 |
0.124 |
0.885 |
Ted Simmons |
0.083 |
0.093 |
0.887 |
Chris Young |
0.092 |
0.104 |
0.889 |
Buck Herzog |
0.068 |
0.076 |
0.891 |
Jack Fournier |
0.091 |
0.102 |
0.892 |
Howie Kendrick |
0.051 |
0.057 |
0.893 |
Gil McDougald |
0.098 |
0.110 |
0.894 |
Justin Turner |
0.084 |
0.094 |
0.894 |
Mickey Rivers |
0.041 |
0.046 |
0.896 |
David Bell |
0.075 |
0.084 |
0.898 |
Jim Spencer |
0.071 |
0.079 |
0.898 |
Hughie Critz |
0.042 |
0.047 |
0.901 |
Bobby Byrne |
0.080 |
0.089 |
0.902 |
Johnny Evers |
0.103 |
0.115 |
0.903 |
Miguel Tejada |
0.057 |
0.063 |
0.906 |
Bobby Thomson |
0.077 |
0.085 |
0.907 |
Jerry Priddy |
0.109 |
0.120 |
0.908 |
MartÃn Prado |
0.062 |
0.069 |
0.908 |
Ben Chapman |
0.106 |
0.116 |
0.908 |
Aurelio Rodriguez |
0.044 |
0.048 |
0.910 |
Heinie Zimmerman |
0.040 |
0.044 |
0.911 |
Daniel Murphy |
0.060 |
0.066 |
0.913 |
Travis Jackson |
0.059 |
0.064 |
0.913 |
Ray Boone |
0.110 |
0.120 |
0.919 |
Bucky Harris |
0.082 |
0.089 |
0.919 |
Stuffy McInnis |
0.042 |
0.045 |
0.922 |
Tony Taylor |
0.069 |
0.075 |
0.923 |