In today’s must-read, ESPN New York takes a lengthy look at moving the fences in at Citi Field.
Says Rybarczyk: “I did this by moving the fence line of the long fence segment 10 feet towards the infield (which actually results in the fence being a bit more than 10 feet closer to home, since the fence angles away from home plate). I also lowered this fence to 10 feet high from the existing 16 feet high. If you do this, you increase homers to that part of the park by 35 percent, and overall homers by 22 percent. Obviously you can tweak the amount of the move inwards and/or the height of the new wall to get a bigger or smaller effect.”
That’s just a little from a long read.
I say leave them alone, and build a team for the park. Maybe find a speedy triples hitter to bat leadoff, and a scrappy Irish guy who hits .309