Citi Field Power Surge 2016

[G-Fafif]

Yoenis Cespedes has moved into a four-way tie for 15th place on Citi Field's Met regular-season home run chart, joining bats with Anthony Recker, Marlon Byrd and Jordany Valdespin with seven.

Michael Conforto sits in 22nd regular-season place, alongside Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Rod Barajas and Gary Sheffield, all of whom have five.

Neil Walker, with one dinger, has become the 68th Met with at least that many HRs at Citi Field and is the 21st with precisely that many.

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: Yoenis Cespedes has moved into a four-way tie for 15th place on Citi Field's Met regular-season home run chart, joining bats with Anthony Recker, Marlon Byrd and Jordany Valdespin with seven.

Yoenis takes sole position of the coveted 15th place.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Maybe they need to move the fences back or something.

[Zvon]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Maybe they need to move the fences back or something.

Laugh of the week.
Will this still be #1 when the weekend is over? Stay tuned.

[G-Fafif]

Lucas Duda is the first Met to have slugged 60 home runs at Citi Field.

Rene Rivera and Asdrubal Cabrera are the 69th and 70th Mets to have hit at least one home run at Citi Field.

Yoenis Cespedes has tied Jeff Francoeur for 14th place. One assumes a yearbook photographer gathered them posing with their bats to commemorate their convergence during the series just concluded.

[G-Fafif]

Yoenis Cespedes has tied Kirk Nieuwenhuis for 12th place in the Citi Field Regular Season Home Run Derby, having notched his eleventh. With the Brewers in town, there was a little ceremony featuring the former teammates before home plate prior to Sunday's game to mark the occasion (albeit in my mind). Also, on the overall Met career home chart, Cespy is tied with Ken Boswell for 58th place. Boswell had 2,116 at-bats, Cespedes 371.

Michael Conforto has tied Jeff Francoeur for 15th place after blasting his ninth regular-season home run at Citi Field. Francoeur, usually so loquacious, could not be reached for comment.

Curtis Granderson, with 21 regular-season Citi Field home runs as a Met, sits six behind Daniel Murphy for fourth place, nine behind Ike Davis for third.

[Frayed Knot]

Gary mentioned something earlier about only Duda having more (or was it as many?) 2-HR games at CitiField then Stanton - and that was said prior to his second HR today.

t'would be kind of sad to have a visiting player, someone with just over 150 ABs at CF, hold that record.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Gary mentioned something earlier about only Duda having more (or was it as many?) 2-HR games at CitiField then Stanton - and that was said prior to his second HR today. t'would be kind of sad to have a visiting player, someone with just over 150 ABs at CF, hold that record.

Very sad, IMO.

So I stop making kaBOOMs for the players and we become a team that scores runs by the bomb about, what, 80% of the time?
Oy.

I made a new kaBOOM for Cespedes about a month ago and then he went over 2 weeks without a round tripper. That has made me leery.

[Edgy MD]

I beg you, keep makin' Kaboom!s.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: I beg you, keep makin' Kaboom!s.

You don't have to twist my arm. I love me mah kaBOOMs.


Familia shows Stanton who's boss.

[G-Fafif]

A full midseason update will be made available after Sunday's game, but I can tell you there's been a lot of shaking, rattling and rolling on the chart.

[G-Fafif]

NEW YORK METS HOME RUNS AT CITI FIELD
2009 - Present (Regular Season, As Mets)

1. Duda 60
2. Wright 50 +1 POSTSEASON
3. Davis 30
4. Murphy 27 +3 POSTSEASON
5. Granderson 25 +2 POSTSEASON
6. Flores 20
7. Cespedes 16 +1 POSTSEASON
7. Reyes 16
9. Pagan 15
10. d’Arnaud 14 +2 POSTSEASON
10. Beltran 14
12. Hairston 13
13. Nieuwenhuis 11
14. Conforto 10 +2 POSTSEASON
14. Bay 10
16. Francoeur 9
17. Cabrera 8
18. Lagares 7
18. Recker 7
18. Byrd 7
18. Valdespin 7
22. Walker 6
22. C. Young 6
22. Buck 6
22. Tatis 6

[Lefty Specialist]

Is there a record for most solo home runs in a season? Because whatever it is, I'm sure the Mets will threaten it if not break it entirely.

[Frayed Knot]

With the Mets on pace for a club record in HRs it's likely they'll break their solo record as well.
Currently, 78 of their 122 HRs are solo (64%), 34 more are 2R jobs (28%). NL averages for those are 60 & 28 percent so, yeah, we mostly suck at meaningful HRs.

Some of that you figure is a predictable outcome of our below average OBA: Mets = .311, NL avg = .321, some the result of Granderson batting leadoff followed by Reyes taking up his run of leadoff HRs (2 of his 3 so far have led off the game or inning), and probably a dose of shitty luck thrown in just as the rest of our RiSP hitting has done.

[G-Fafif]

With one homestand to go in this record-breaking season for Met home runs hit at home...

NEW YORK METS HOME RUNS AT CITI FIELD
2009 - Present (Regular Season, As Mets)

1. Duda 60
2. Wright 50 + 1 POSTSEASON
3. Davis 30
4. Granderson 28 + 2 POSTSEASON
5. Murphy 27 + 3 POSTSEASON
6. Flores 24
7. Cespedes 19 + 1 POSTSEASON
8. Reyes 17
9. d’Arnaud 16 + 2 POSTSEASON
10. Pagan 15
11. Cabrera 14
11. Beltran 14
13. Hairston 13
14. Nieuwenhuis 11
15. Walker 10
15. Conforto 10 + 2 POSTSEASON
15. Bay 10
18. Francoeur 9
19. Lagares 7
19. Recker 7
19. Byrd 7
19. Valdespin 7
23. K. Johnson 6
23. C. Young 6
23. Buck 6
23. Tatis 6

Other 2016 Mets
(lifetime Citi Field regular-season totals as Mets)
R. Rivera 3
Bruce 2
De Aza 2
Reynolds 2
Loney 2
Campbell 2
Nimmo 1
Harvey 1
Syndergaard 1
Plawecki 1