Good New For The Hitters

(30th November, 2011)

Good news for Mets hitters.  They’re bringing in the fences at CitiField so now it will be a “more friendly”  hitter’s ballpark.  All of a sudden the warning track fly balls of the past couple of seasons might turn in to be home runs.  That means more runs and probably longer games.  While it will also help opposing batters, players like David Wright and Jason Bay are probably chomping at the bit now.  Most of the big league stadiums now are small, hitter’s delights.  There was a time not so long ago when many of the big league parks were spacious and pitching was a premium.   But, the powers to be decided they wanted more home runs and more scoring.  And, that’s what they got.  Now small ballparks are the norm.  I’m not saying CitiField will now be a small ballpark, but it certainly will be more appealing to hitters than it was.  While I’ve always been concerned with misleading statistics in this regard it seems most baseball fans like it.  All I can say is what a time to be a hitter in the Big Leagues standing in the batter’s box looking at those short fences.

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