In a post for NY Sports Dog, Dave Singer looks in to David Wright’s struggles at Citi Field so far this season.

As Singer points out, Wright is hitting .271 with a .785 OPS at home and .413 with a 1.090 OPS on the road.

So Wright decidedly has been better on the road than at Citi Field in 2009.

Still, I think one of Singer’s suggested explanations – a small sample size - might be best.  I wrote about the same issue last week.

Wright’s torrid stretch in San Francisco and Los Angeles came on the road and so has a sizable effect on those road stats, but it’s impossible to say whether that run was brought on by the road trip or random chance.

Hard as it is to believe, Citi has not yet proved to be an appreciably harder park to hit in than Shea.

Since these splits are often fickle and tend to balance out with time, it’s probably way too soon to assume the new park has somehow gotten to Wright’s head or he’s not seeing the ball there.

To cite some random examples: Evan Longoria has a home/road split nearly as stark as Wright’s (.862 OPS home, 1.105 away) after posting an .871 OPS at home and an .877 OPS on the road in 2008. And check out Justin Upton’s home and road numbers from last season and this one.

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