What happened to all the triples?

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets have only hit 9 triples so far this season. It's possible that 2014 will end up being the least tripliest season in Mets history. The current record for fewest triples by the team is the 14 that they hit in 1999. The only other seasons when the Mets had fewer than 20 triples were 1992 (17) and 2001 (18). The most was in 2009, when they had 49 triples. The Mets had 47 triples in both 1978 and 1996.

1962 40
1963 35
1964 31
1965 27
1966 35
1967 23
1968 30
1969 41
1970 42
1971 29
1972 31
1973 24
1974 22
1975 34
1976 34
1977 30
1978 47
1979 41
1980 41
1981 35
1982 26
1983 26
1984 25
1985 35
1986 31
1987 34
1988 24
1989 21
1990 21
1991 24
1992 17
1993 37
1994 21
1995 34
1996 47
1997 28
1998 24
1999 14
2000 20
2001 18
2002 22
2003 24
2004 20
2005 32
2006 41
2007 27
2008 38
2009 49
2010 40
2011 39
2012 21
2013 32
2014 9

[Edgy MD]

Tejada replacing Rey-O certainly started it. More recently, a mix largely including Young and Abreu replacing most of Eric Young. That was certainly a factor.

David Wright: 0 triples in 2014.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jose Reyes only had 2 of the Mets' 49 triples in 2009. Angel Pagan had the most, with 11. Cory Sullivan (!) was second with 5, followed by Fernando Tatis and Daniel Murphy, each with 4. Luis Castillo and David Wright had 3 each. Six players had 2 triples, and there were seven players who had 1, including Josh Thole, Omir Santos, and Nelson Figueroa.

[Frayed Knot]

To be virtually triple-less in this ballpark (5 at home, 4 on road) is really freaky-low.
CF, even in its newer slightly smaller state, is built for triples.

[smg58]

From FanGraphs park factor analysis:

before the walls came in: HR 93, TR 109, overall 97 (many other factors contribute to the overall as well)
after the walls came in: HR 103, TR89, overall 96

Basically the dimensions change killed triples more than it boosted home runs. The park still favors pitchers on the whole (but never by as much as people have made it out to), but people's assumptions on how the park plays have not changed with the statistics.

The analysis does not consider 2014 data yet. And obviously a big part of the drop this year has to do with not having triples hitters in general. (Our pitching staff has given up 9 triples at home and 14 on the road.)

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I have no recollection of the triple-basing Cory Sullivan!

[Guest themetfairy]

Corey Sullivan in October 2009 -

[Edgy MD]

Man, there's a crowd.

[Edgy MD]

Juan Lagares just went to war with this thread.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Number of Mets triples this year is now 11.