Marty Noble on MLB.com
If the whispers carry fact, the height of the wall that stretches from the left-field corner to where it intersects with the center-field wall would be reduced by as much as half, and the distances from the plate to some of the more distant corners would be chopped as well. The Mo Zone, however, might survive because of its popularity. Citi wouldn’t become Citizens Bank Bandbox or challenge the Friendly Confines in terms of coziness. The Wilpons have final say, and Fred still prefers 3-2 to 11-7.
I say leave it alone.
I say change it…it screws with hitters minds.
Mets are 23-29 at home…33-27 on the road. If we had a real home field advantage and were 29-23, record would be 62-50, 2 games out of Wild Card.
Leave the fences as they are. Build the team around pitching and defense. it’s not the ball park that has the home record so poor it’s the poor play at home
You would think it scares off potential power hitting free agents as well not that Alderson will be wooing any of those but still
if the walls were adjusted, Reyes wouldn’t not be competing for a batting title right now.
With all due respect, the numbers do not bear that out. Reyes is hitting .331 on the road this year…they would not be turning the field into a bandbox…it would still be biger than average. Even if he just hit .331 at home too, he would not only still be contending for the batting title, but he would be winning it.
With the news just in, you probably won’t be seeing him much more this season…it is the same hammy…gotta think he’s out till at least September.
Paint the wall blue, and leave it alone. Tinker with the team, not the field. And if you can’t convince David Wright that he’s a doubles & average hitter, trade him during the off-season.
Only 4 teams out of 30 in MLB have a clearly worse record at home than on the road…the Mets being the worst differential. My point is you have nothing to lose by moving the fences in. No contending team plays poorly at home.
The park is fine the way it is. It doesn’t give up cheap homers like so many other places do.
Build the team around the park!..Speed…Pitching…Defense..
Its not the park we just dont have good or the right players.
A perfect example we should have never gotten Jason Bay. We need fast
guyd who can hit line drives in the gaps
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This entire conversation is just more of the same misdirection/excuse-making we’ve all grown accustomed to the past few seasons. All these teams beating the Mets at home are playing in the exact same park the Mets are. If the dimensions are screwing with players heads, it’s the players that need to be addressed, not the walls.
No contending team plays poorly at home because they’re contending teams and as a general rule don’t play poorly, period. The Mets are not a contending team. Moving the fences around won’t make them one. To the extent the park matters, it’s because Fred and Jeff built a pitching-and-speed park and then their GM proceeded to throw money at free-agent HR hitters while pinning their rotation hopes on guys like Perez and Maine and looking for a bullpen in the yellow pages.
Buliding a team to a ballpark makes no sense for the following reasons:
1) Not all fans like speed and defense. HR hitters drive cadillacs for a reason…fans like powerful teams too. Build a neutral park to attract diverse fans.
2) Why limit your talent pool? In today’s game, talent becomes available for different reasons at different times. So if Pujols became available, we would decline because we don’t want a power team? We quietly wait for the next Vince Coleman?
3) You only play half your games at home…so you build a fast team with pitchers who are used to a big park, then you go play in Philly…in Cincy…oops.
Build a fair park and a team that can play anywhere.
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Fans like winners!!!…..If you win nobody cares how u do it!
I agree…I just think you have a better chance winning with a flexible team that can play anywhere…and I like to see my team hit more homeruns and play fundamental baseball.
OK….then we neef to get rid of this whole team!!!…..We cant hit homr runs and we certainly dont play fundamental ball
At least put them in those blue unifotms…..if we are gpnna suck…lets look good doing it!
Word on the unis.