Alderson did say something that makes a lot of sense if you think about it. And that’s that psychologically the dimensions of the park play on the minds of the home team more because they have to play there 81 times vs visitors who come in for 3 and are gone, thus the psychologically it doesn’t have the same effect. Meanwhile the Mets players ALLOW the dimensions to get in their head and they struggle to find a way to use the park to their advantage.

It’s clear from comments made by Mets players that the huge dimensions have gotten in their heads. I’m not sure how you get that out of their heads without moving the fences. Unfortunately this will probably help visiting teams as much if not more than the Mets. If it’s HR’s this F/O wants then they’re going to have to go out and get some power hitters, because only Duda legitimately looks like a 30 HR threat over a full season with Wright more likely for 20-25. The problem with that is WHO are you going to get (Fielder and Poulojs cost too much $$$$) and how much can they spend to get said HR hitter? Or who are they willing to trade to get someone?

In the end, moving the fences may help ease the psychological burden on the players, but may not help as much as the F/O would like to think it will.

We have a couple of guys in Ike and Duda that can hit it out of anywhere.

They have a lot of continuity on their ML roster. They tinker with it every year, they don’t have 8-12 holes to fill every year.

This whole thing reminds me of Steinbrenner signing Dave Collins away from the Reds without even a position to play Collins at and talking at length about putting astro turf in Yankee Stadium because speed was the reason the Yankees got beat.

“Gotta get me some speed.” Thirty years later across town it’s the other team making excuses about about the fence as if were routinely hitting the warning track or the fence on the fly and hitting bombs on the road.

I’m sure people will just be flocking to Citi to watch all these additional HR’s every year.

Just another cheap gimmick to deflect attention away from the Wilpon cheaping out on the draft and international free agency for the last decade and a half.

And people are actually buying this?

visiting teams just keep doing their normal approach, and what happens happens.

But, if the park really is “in their heads” (the home team) and they start changing their approach to compensate, that is where things can go awry. And may have negative impacts onthe road? Hard to say.

Someone that hits like Wright is a good test case. If he played on the phils, and was spraying balls all over the park (with lots of opposite field HRs), when he played in Citi he would just do the same thing, take his doubles, and move along to the next city.

But, if he played 81 games in a park perceived to take away his HR power, he might conciously (or not) change. Start trying to be pull happy, overswinging, whatever.

Anyway, just trying to say that it is plausible that an extreme home park can effect the home team differently than the road team.

If Citi Field were the problem we would hitting tons of HR’s on the road and that just isn’t the case. We’ve hit 102 HR’s all year. 45 of which were hit at home. Does that seem like a huge disparity to you. 10 more HR’s all year long hit on the road some no doubt that are 1/2 the size of Citi so what would these changes do for us? Maybe 5 more HR’s, but for our opponents, with our starters and bullpen I hate to tell you it’s going to be a different story.

We have guys who can hit it out of anywhere so we should just leave the fences where they are. Ike lost 4 months or he may have hit 20 HR’s here. Wright lost two months. He probably lost 5 HR’s. Duda didn’t even get up here and get going until August.

What are we going to do on the road? Move those fences in too?

It’s just a cheap gimmick to trick the fan impressed with the Apple and blessed with a short attention span or it could be a signal that speed is out and power (if it comes) is in. If that’s the case then you can forget about resigning Reyes.

Once again the Wilpon’s got it all wrong. The only thing that’s going to provide steady crowds is a competently run baseball team that contends for a pennant every single year. Contends, not aspire’s.

All the foolish gimmicks in the world aren’t going to change that.

But, you do have a point otherwise. Ya, we’ll make it easier for our guys to hit home runs, but it will also be easier for the opponents.

but even if they leave that alone, pull in the RCF alley next to it.