Piecoro: Arizona Diamondbacks exploring ways to make Chase Field less hitter friendly

Cole Gillespie and his lone HR are not amused.

Many big-league hitters consider Chase Field among their favorite places to ply their craft. The Diamondbacks would like to do something about that.

Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall said the club is “looking at everything” in hopes of creating a neutral playing environment - or at least one that doesn’t skew so heavily toward hitters.

Among the ideas: Changing the dimensions, raising fences and even borrowing a page from Colorado’s Coors Field by storing baseballs in a climate-controlled humidor.

“We do know that it’s an issue,” Hall said. “The offense is unreal at Chase Field. We have a launching pad now. We have a team that’s hopefully going to be built around young pitching. We should look at ways to reduce offense, especially from an opponents’ standpoint.”

Chase Field’s offensive tendencies are nothing new. Going by ESPN.com’s Park Factor statistics for runs scored - generated by comparing run-scoring rates in home games to road games - Chase has ranked among the top six highest-scoring ballparks in the majors for the past five seasons.