Tom Brennan - June Swoon Has Arrived - in Sept - Darned Citi Fences Are Complicit

 The June Swoon has arrived!

The Mets annual June swoon is underway. Of course they waited until September this year to swoon, being trounced by crappy teams with crappy pitching, going five and six in the last 11 games against thoroughly under-.500 pitchers and teams. 

And of course, it’s always the hitting. Or lack thereof. 

With the Mets, it is ALWAYS the lack of hitting that sinks them.

Of course, if you don't read to the end and ponder carefully, and stay silent, you are complicit.

In the six losses against these thoroughly under .500 teams, they just have not generated any offense. 

In the last 15 games for each player, in fact, Vogelbach, Naquin, Ruf, and Vientos are a combined 14 for 112. Not pretty. Not pretty at all. 

But, as my brother Steve would say, "typical Mets".   

Of course, last night‘s first inning was so ominous. Nimmo leads off with a walk, McNeil rips a base hit grounder into the hole … and it hits Nimmo! Oh, no! Then Pete just barely misses a two run homer. OH, NO! And, even with deGrom pitching, my first thought in that first inning was, oh no. Here we go. Jake deLila couldn’t beat the Cubs’ Sampson.

Of course, two more things. Hermosilla laid down a sac bunt, ran well inside the baseline, got hit in the helmet with the throw, should have been called out, but the moron umps failed to call it, leading to two more runs off Jake. Typical.

And then Hermosilla caught a Mark Canha drive to the out-dip part of the fence by the RF bullpen.  At the wall.  Yet another home run lost to the too-big dimensions of Citifield. Just a long, average-reducing, out.

The Mets’ offense was horrific again, and the loss of Marte from that offense was incredibly ill-timed. And the Atlanta Brats of course are not going to keep losing so the lead is back to a just half a game. Megill got rocked last night in AAA, too. Oh, no.

I think the Mets have run out of answers-and the June Swoon is in full bloom - in September. “Typical Mets.”

METS SWOONS AND HOME FIELD CONTRIBUTION THERETO:

Please note, I have been relatively polite about it up until now, but I am getting extremely pissed and, yes, enraged, about this topic as the Mets' division lead evaporates. 

The Shittyfield dimensions.

Pete's first inning titanic just-foul first inning shot is an easy 2 run HR in Yankee Stadium.  Why? 

It's 17 feet shorter to the left field foul pole in the House that Ruth Built - if it was hit there, that Alonso ball does not curve foul, and easily stays fair.  An uplifting 2 run blast, rather than a gut-wrenching foul tape-measure job leading to a scoreless first inning.

Then in the 6th, Mark Canha launches a home run to the out-dip area of the Mets' pen in right - that was caught.  If there was no out-dip, which out-dip I have recommended dozens of times to be eliminated by moving it in, it's a HR.  

That's two HRs lost to the Shittyfield dimensions, and perhaps there were more yesterday, as I did not watch most of the game.

Now, please note.  

The Mets are scuffling offensively - have been for some time.  

Given that, when your stinking park regularly takes HRs away from you that are HRs elsewhere, at a time you're scuffling, it is downright deflating.  Team slumps can happen at any time.

Am I making too much of it?  No.  

Once again, the park is damaging their hitters.  

Almost...every....single...year.

At home, they are just 14th in scoring, with 67 HRs.  

On the road, they are 2ND IN SCORING and have 80 HRs.  

Minus 13 in HRs home vs. road.

Same darned disparity almost every year.  Steve Cohen, your idiot analysts should be telling you this.

And the Yanks? 101 HRs on the road, but 123 at home.

Plus 22 in HRs home vs. road.

Does it matter in wins and losses?  

Well, Yanks have won 14 more games at home than on the road in 2022.  The Mets have won just 3 more at home than on the road.  So the answer is YES.   

I throw out all the "well, it helps the Mets' pitchers, too, so it nets out, or the opposing teams hit in the same dimensions" arguments as uninformed balderdash.

My takeaway?  If they hit 2nd best on the road, they have the second best offense over the course of 2022 in all of baseball.  Except for being assigned to a prison called Shittyfield, where Mets' hitters routinely go to die.

The annual swoons are in large part due to the park inducing Mets' hitters to slump.  

So, Mr. Steve Cohen, while you spend a huge $300 million on players, why are your idiot analysts not recommending you fix this fatal flaw that damages those same players with swoon-inducing results, that is, the dimensions of Shittyfield? 

I darned well hope some one of those idiot analysts gets this article in front of you.  Then I will remove that person from the Idiot List.  Move the fences in, and watch this team stop its annual pattern of swooning.