Will Astros Home Hitting Improve After Stadium Changes?

It's been an interesting year for the Houston Astros' offense this season. They have performed much better on the road than at home this year, one of the reasons why their home record is 38-37 while their away record is 46-29.

Players have voiced their concerns about the "batter's eye" in the home park to the front office and it looks like the franchise is doing something about it.

Green paint is being added in center field to help batters see the ball better at Minute Maid Park. This will go into effect as early as early as Monday against the Baltimore Orioles.

General Manager Dana Brown told 790-AM Houston a couple weeks earlier, "Guys have talked to us about the batters eye. This team has been good with the same batters eye the last two years. There could be a few tweaks to it and adjustments to it for left-handed pitching but we've won with it before."

Whether or not these changes will help the Astros this season are to be seen.

The numbers have pointed to them struggling much more at home than on the road this year.

Home: .251/.324/.407/.732 with 83 home runs and 323 RBI

Road: .267/.338/.460/.799 with 119 home runs and 411 RBI

Players seem to be adamant that the old "batter's eye" was preventing them from seeing the ball as well as they do in other ballparks. If this change does help their hitting improve at home, they'll be one of the scariest teams in the postseason once again.

There will be little time to see if the improvements actually help them or not with six home games remaining on the regular season schedule.

But, if Houston is able to win the AL West and get a bye, they'll have plenty of time to get used to how the new "batter's eye" looks before they start playing playoff baseball.