The stingiest NL ballpark (measured by homers allowed, including inside the park jobs) was AT&T park in San Francisco (1.00 HR/game)
Next was PETCO park in San Diego (1.23 HR/game)
Third was Citi Field in NYC (1.33 HR/game)

The American League’s stingiest was McAfee Coliseum in Oakland. It had 1.35 HR/game. Citi Field was the third stingiest in all of major league baseball.

http://www.hittrackeronline.com/stadiums.php

and MO is that it helps the Mets more, working on the theory that having it as a home park messed with the hitters on the Mets (made them change their approach), while visiting teams did not do this for a 3 game series.

If Citi Field never happened and Shea Stadium moved it’s fences BACK to the dimensions they are now, which is shorter than what Citi Field was, then people would be screaming why the heck are they moving the fences back? And I would be one of them. It’s all in your mind.

And someone said that the last 2 seasons were a home-field advantage???? That is just someone purely looking at some kind of misleading statistical data and not thinking for themselves and looking at the situation as it it in real life. And in real life the fences are still bigger than Shea Stadium – and the Mets played fine in Shea Stadium and nobody complained.

Oh…and if on opening day the Mets lose the game on a walk off HR that would have been an out in the original canyon sized Citi FIeld the decision to move the fences in would STILL be the right move because now it’s more of a normal baseball game so I would have no problem with the result because that’s the way is should have been….because the original Citi Field dimensions were just completely ridiculous and got into everybody’s heads.

Other teams came in and still hit HRs because they didn’t have to think about making adjustments and it wasn’t in their heads 81 games a season. Moving the fences is was the exact RIGHT thing to do and I’m sure the Mets players are happy about it

If the choice to keep Citi the way it was was to mask our atrocious pitching that’s a terrible reason.

The Mets had millions invested on 4 different hitters in 2010-2011, Beltran, Reyes, Wright, Bay. The park should enhance their hitting now swallow it up whole.

On the flipside the Mets had one starting pitcher making big bucks and he never even took the mound in 2011.

The park is still bigger than Shea. If you’re worried about the effect changes will have on pitchers, than get better pitchers.

It’s a shame that this park has taken guys like Wright and Bay and completely demolished all expectations for them having great offensive seasons after investing $30 million annually to them. In my opinion it derailed Bay’s career, and took Wright from superstar status to above average player. Hopefully the new changes can reverse that. I think they will.

And there’s no way you can tell me he’s the same player now as he was from 05-08.

These changes are not that drastic to completely change it from a pitchers part to a hitters park.

I’m not saying the fences aren’t in his head. I’m saying if they are, he needs to sack up. And they clearly aren’t affecting him a whole lot, as seen from 2010.

So how could you blame that on being hit? In 2010, he did put up better numbers, but he still wasn’t right. He struck out 161 times, and hit for the lowest average of his career.