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…the Mets have altered the shape of a back field here in the complex to reflect the exact dimensions of Citi Field…
…if you recall from my tour of Citi Field, the wall in left-center and in right-center will be close to 18 feet high…
…i took a picture of myself from behind the wall, on the field here in St. Lucie to try and give you a sense of just how tall it will be…keep in mind, i’m only 5’ 8”, but still, you get that picture…
…it’s no joke…it’s huge…there will be no spectacular Endy Chavez catches against this sucker…at least not without a ladder…
Matt, Can you post pics of the entire outfield wall?
I can only imagine how many opposite field doubles DWright is going to have.
On another note, unrelated, but Duaner Sanchez was interviewed in the NY Post Temo paper, and he was asked what he would do if he faced his mother in the batters box (he’s apparently very close to her). His response: “I’d get her ass out.”
I love it.
ill say its the exact number of opposite field HRs he WONT have.
and the amount of hr’s that other teams won’t have either
wait a minute…. opposite field?? left center is not opposite field for wright
Yes, but as the post says (and all the pics, renderings and articles about Citi field dating back years now have indicated), the walls are 18 footers in both left center AND right center.
Looks like Citi may be leaning towards a balanced-pitcher’s park after all.
anyone else think we should just have fernando martinez play all his games at that ST field this season, so he’s good and ready for 2009…
seriously, though, that wall is gonna take some getting used to for our OFs…
figure its a triple for reyes if it hits off that wall?
no doubt
lets sign Yao Ming for LF
That fits, he’s out for the season…
lol…
That wall isn’t where the triples will come – the RF wall is a maze. Reyes has to be thinking ‘in the park home-run’.
any reason why they made the wall so huge?
To give Pedro one last Cy Young and to make Santana look like a monster on natural grass with a big outfield wall.
Of course, Beltran will likely hit even less HRs in this park than he does at Shea.
Beltran will only hit 17 percent more homeruns if he is feeling 87.5 percent healthy !
Kevin Burkhardt said to keep fans from interfering with balls that are/could be stil in play.
the height of the fence wouldnt interfere with that. the distance the outfield seats is to the wall would.
talking seats, a fence that high has to block the sight lines of nearly any seats more than a few rows behind the OF wall unless they are pitched so steep that its a like a ski jump…
HUH? If the wall is 18 feet high than the height of the wall absolutely does keep people from trying to catch balls that the outfielders could possibly catch.
If a ball clears the 18 feet the outfielder clearly had no chance of making some great leaping catch.
people can still interfew with the ball, for example makeing a double off the top of the wall into a home run by touching it, etc… i like how at yankee they have a bar that restricts the fans from getting too close to the wall in right…
Yeah, and the Yankees never had an issue with anyone interfering with a homer in right……..
they installed the bar after the incident
yeah but havent we seen one of our guys almost get interfered with in LF at yankee stadium last year? i think it was gomez…
i remember that….. it looked closer to being interfered with than it was I think…..
but that was LF, not RF
Dont forget the Tiger Stadium overhang in right. They should do something to replicate that. Get the outfielders used to the shadows it creates and tracking flyballs that go under it.
Is there any talk of the ground rule if the ball hits the front of that overhang and stays in play, is it a live ball? or does anything hitting it count as gone?
I would guess that it would count in play. Maybe it will be shaped in a way that its less likely to bounce back, but hopefully it wont have a net like Wrigley…
I dislike pitchers parks, pitchers themselves are fun to watch, but seeing homeruns die because of the park eliminates some of the fun in watching a game.
it wouldnt be as frustrating if every stadium was like that but watching teams like philly hitting pop ups that are HRs angers me and then having to watch balls like the one delgado hit against the braves when he got robbed on the final out and castros would be grand slam in game 162 which wouldve been gone at probably any other stadium (and about 10 rows back in philly) is frustrating. but that stuff works both ways so it helps us too.
i feel like usually in a situation like that, with an overhang – any part thats not the wall itself would be a homerun – otherwise too much confusion about whether a fan touched it. But then, there are plenty of ballparks that have that confusion, so who knows what theyll do.
In the old Tiger Stadium any ball that hit the overhanging seats or facade was a homer. I would imagine it would be the same at CITI Field.
now what happens when CitiCorp goes bankrupt this year?