CIti Field to keep dimensions
by Eli Greenspan on Sep 3, 2009 10:53 AM EDT
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PrintThe New York Daily News is reporting that the Mets, after consulting both Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya, will not adjust the dimensions of Citi Field.
"We didn't know how the park would play," Manuel said, according to the Daily News. "It might look big but still could have possibly played small. Now that you see, you have to make a decision which way you're going. Are you going to try to go power, and not defense and speed and pitching?"
Citi Field is definitely way too big. Take David Wright for example. Wright averaged 29 home runs per season from 2005-2008. This season he has only hit 8 home runs, only 5 at home. Wright isn't one to complain, but he has every reason to.
"I would say it's probably built the opposite than for me," Wright said, according to the Daily News. "I think one of my strengths is driving the ball to right field. I sometimes think I have to hit it twice to get it out there. It is what it is. It's not something I'm going to complain about or anybody else should complain about. It's the park and we have to adapt."
77 home runs on the season, last in the league. It is only a matter of time before the dimensions are changed.
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Hard to use Wright’s season to judge Citi Field. He’s averaged a home run every 47 at bats at home and every 88 at bats on the road. He is just simply a changed hitter this season with a new philosophy at the plate.
Even harder to use the Citi Field home run totals in general. Half of the at bats taken there are by a Mets lineup that features Corey Sullivan, Anderson Hernandez, Luis Castillo, Brian Schnieder, Dan Murphy, and Angel Pagan. Who exactly is getting robbed of home runs in that lineup? Of course the totals will be low.
It’s definitely not a home run hitters park by any stretch but I think a lot of the lore about it is exaggerated by the anemic offense that has played there this season.
yea...
cuz the Yankees don’t lead the league in Away HR too?
There are a few that get out, but the “Jet Stream” is a fabrication and a pretty stupid idea.
Oh yea….I think the Yankees and their best record in baseball and the Mets in their putridness tell the story of which stadium has worked out so far….
GODZZIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
I get it, your a fan of the Yanks...
But wouldn’t you admit, that the dimensions at new Yankee stadium have, well, made every one look like Lou Gehrig re-incarnate? I mean come on, i’m a fan of the Halos, and our rock formation sucks!!!!
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
kinder man than i
you’re a far kinder man than i am in such a measured response. i’d have ripped ahmad bradshaw’s stalker a new one.
as if the yankees wouldn’t hit a ton of HRs, or be winning many games, in any stadium they called home. for that matter, you could put the mets at the new yankee stadium and they would be full of, as you called it, “putridness.”
So Wright has hit 5 HRs home, 3 away, and you’re blaming the home stadium? You might also remember that in the 2nd half of ‘06 Wright’s isolated power completely dipped, going from 20 HRs pre all-star break to just 6 after, and an isolated power of .260 to .165.
It definitely is more of a pitchers park, but not as extreme as Petco. But yeah, it will take a toll on HRs, just as playing in Minute Maid, Great American, Citizens Bank or US Cellular will increase one’s HRs. There’s been so many injuries that it’s kind of hard to tell. Delgado hit 3 HRs at home in only 30 ABs, but that’s a small sample size. Fernando Tatis has 5 in 150 home ABs this season; 6 in 143 ABs last year.
I think it’s too early this year to jump to any conclusions and change the park dimensions.
by 18 Mile on Sep 4, 2009 3:40 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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