For the sake of discussion and disgust, the Mets hitting home/road splits:
| Split | GS | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | CS | BB | SO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 68 | 2488 | 2220 | 241 | 538 | 103 | 9 | 52 | 28 | 13 | 217 | 524 | .242 | .311 | .367 | .678 |
| Away | 72 | 2805 | 2507 | 336 | 650 | 151 | 9 | 65 | 38 | 19 | 230 | 565 | .259 | .326 | .404 | .730 |
and their pitching home/road splits; that is, how other teams hit in Citi Field vs. elsewhere against the Mets:
| Split | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | CS | BB | SO | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 267 | 2581 | 2333 | 288 | 561 | 112 | 9 | 72 | 37 | 11 | 191 | 542 | 2.84 | .240 | .301 | .389 | .689 |
| Away | 295 | 2687 | 2398 | 329 | 628 | 123 | 18 | 64 | 46 | 12 | 216 | 534 | 2.47 | .262 | .325 | .408 | .733 |
Things to note: The Mets have hit 13 fewer home runs at home than on the road, but their opponents have hit eight more home runs at Citi Field than in other parks while playing the Mets. But that’s not the weird one. In the most dramatic split, the Mets have hit 48 fewer doubles at home while their opponents have hit only nine fewer. Why don’t the Mets hit well in their home ballpark, especially doubles-wise, or at least see a less dramatic split?
Well let’s start here. The Mets have actually been one of the better offensive teams in the National League this season, but only on the road. They’re second in runs scored on the road, first in doubles, third in on-base percentage, fourth in OPS, fifth in slugging, and third in walks drawn. Take the Mets out of Citi Field, and they’re a top-three, top-five offensive team. Ike Davis is having an All-Star season (.259/.330/.563), but only as a road player.
Stick the Mets in Citi Field, and that all goes away. They’re dead-last in the NL in runs scored at home. They’re 15th in on-base percentage, 15th in OPS, 13th in slugging, 14th in doubles and 12th in home runs. David Wright, Daniel Murphy, and Lucas Duda have been above-average hitters at home . . . and then the six other Mets with 100 plate appearances at home have sub-.700 OPS marks.
So how do the same group of players show up as a top-three offensive team in one group of ballparks, and then a bottom-three team in their home ballpark?
That’s a serious question. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on with the Mets, or how a team can hit so well on the road and also be this awful at home. The simplest answer is that Citi Field suppresses run scoring in ways that go beyond the distance of the outfield walls. Maybe it’s wind patterns caused by the design of the park. Maybe they caught an unfair number of aces at home this season. I honestly don’t have a better answer, and I’m not sure the Mets do either.
Patrick John Flood (blog) 
Lance Johnson!?
Clearly most of these guys need to play their home games in different ballparks. Would solve multiple issues at the same time…
The answer is speed. It’s a large park and you need some speed to score consistently. The Mets traded/let go of all their speed (Reyes and Pagan) and they’ve been a station to station squad this year. If they’d at least hung on to Angel, things would be better. I know you’re saying that last year they didn’t score either. Well Wright and Davis were injured. Get us some table setters and a power hitter with a good batting average behind Wright and we’ll score some runs next year.
That makes no sense. How would speed or lack thereof only hamper them at home?
Only sort of joking, is there something in the water at Citifield? Like there is some real and tangible environmental cause to the lackluster hiting at home?