In an interview on “Ripken Baseball” on Sirius XM, Chipper Jones lays out his distaste for the Mets new ballpark. He also drags David Wright into the fray.
It is the biggest park that I have ever played in in my life. It is a huge ballpark to center and right center and right field. You know, I actually feel sort of sorry for some of the guys out there because their power numbers are really going to take a hit; guys like David Wright, [Carlos] Beltran, [Carlos] Delgado. The days of them hitting 35, 40 homers -- they're over
I juiced the ball just right of center field, as hard as The Good Lord can let me hit a ball, and it hit midways up the center-field wall for a double. And every time there was a long fly-out or a double that hit off the wall or something, David Wright would run by me and go, 'Nice park.'
[Wright] is a little frustrated with it, but on the flip side of that, you got a guy like Jose Reyes who's liable to hit, in a healthy year, 25, 30 triples in that ballpark, because if you split a gap you can run forever.
Seems like Jones is trying to make some waves for the Mets. Saying one of the forefront players of the team is “frustrated” with the expensive new ballpark is quite substantial.
Sure, it may be true, but there’s really no need to bring it up unless you want to stir something up. This is just like Chipper.