Current MLB ballpark · 2009 – present

Citi Field

Flushing, NY

Opened: 2009
Capacity: 42,136
Surface: Grass
Roof: Open
League: NL
Elevation: 10 ft
Orientation: 13° (NNE)
Time zone: America/New_York

How it plays

Every number is an index where 100 is league average. There is no such thing as one park factor — this park does different things to a triple than it does to a home run, and the only honest version is the whole row. Off 15,710 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	94	98
Home runs	91	100
Triples	77	80
Doubles	92	94
Singles	100	96
Walks	104	107
Strikeouts	105	103
Value on contact	98	98
Expected on contact	101	100

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±1.7 points (a 4-point spread over 5 seasons). The league median is 3.0. Read a single season's figure with that much slack in it — the walls do not move, and the number does.

By the batter's side

Runs	86 RHB	102 LHB
Home runs	91 RHB	91 LHB
Value on contact	92 RHB	104 LHB

7,830 right-handed and 7,880 left-handed plate appearances — each side is half a season, so read these with at least the slack the combined figures carry — the band above is ±1.7 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0148 subtracted from it, off 3,666 balls in play here this season. That is the number behind every board on this site, which is the only reason it is printed. It is not on the 100-is-average scale above: it is value on contact per ball in play, so it cannot be added to or subtracted from any index in this table. The two can even point opposite ways — Savant's runs index counts all offense, ours is only the residual against what the batted balls deserved.

Index figures: Baseball Savant, single-season and three-year rolling. What a park factor is, and is not →

The lore

The Park That Wouldn't Stay Put

Citi Field opened too big for its own good, and the Mets have been moving the fences ever since.

Citi Field opened in 2009 with a left-field wall 16 feet tall, and for three seasons it suppressed home runs like few parks in the Major Leagues. The Mets had built a pitcher's park — center field measured 408 feet to the wall, right-center stretched to 415, and the left-field wall, tall and flat, picked up the nickname the Great Wall of Flushing. David Wright hit five home runs there in the inaugural season. The dimensions were the story of the building's early life, and the organization could not leave them alone.

Before the 2012 season, the Mets pulled right-center in from 415 feet to 390 and built an 8-foot wall in front of the 16-foot left-field wall. In 2023, they moved the right-field fence in another 8 feet and installed a new center-field scoreboard measuring 17,400 square feet — the largest in any MLB ballpark. The ground has been restless since the day it opened.

What Happened There

On June 1, 2012, Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in Mets franchise history, an 8-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The franchise had gone more than 50 years without one. The first Mets game at the park had its own footnote: on April 13, 2009, Jody Gerut of the Padres led off with a home run off Mike Pelfrey — the first player in MLB history to open a new ballpark with a leadoff home run. A college game between St. John's and Georgetown had actually opened the park on March 29, 2009, before the Mets played their first regular-season home game against the Padres.

The Ground

Citi Field sits in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, about half a mile southeast of LaGuardia Airport, with planes frequently visible beyond the right-center-field fence. It replaced the adjacent Shea Stadium, demolished shortly before the new ballpark opened. The architecture firm Populous designed it, and the Jackie Robinson Rotunda — a wide entrance that greets fans arriving from the train station, inspired partly by Ebbets Field — is the feature most identified with the building. Citigroup holds the naming rights at a reported $20 million per year.

The Mets have called Citi Field home since 2009. The fences have already moved twice.

Reporting: Wikipedia, MLB.com, This Great Game. Park data: MLB StatsAPI and Retrosheet, via the Fever engine.

By the Desk · filed 2026-07-23 — the piece reads as of its filing; the park record around it is live · every fact in this piece comes from a filed, sourced research pack and clears an independent fact-check, and nothing is edited after filing.

The dimensions

Fence distances from home plate, in feet — the same venue.fieldInfo the scorecards draw their hit charts on.

Left field line	335′
Left field	358′
Left-center	370′
Center field	408′
Right-center	380′
Right field	370′
Right field line	330′

Home club

NYM New York Mets

Games we’ve scored here

74 games at this park in our books — every one transcribed mark for mark, reconciled to the official line. The most recent:

…and 62 more in the scorecard archive.

Where it stands

Citi Field, Flushing, NY 11368. Open the map →

Sources

MLB StatsAPI · as of 2026-07-23
Retrosheet · as of 2026-07-23

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