Backlash from this move haven't come necessarily from fans, who tend to joke that the team needs better hitters if they want to hit even more home runs, but from the media. Many media members are concerned that lessening Citi Field's dimensions will hurt their young pitchers. A recent report came out that said if the Mets had the new dimensions last year, they would have hit seven more home runs, while the opposition would have hit four.
Do I think this will hurt the young pitching? No. The Mets have a rotation and back end of the bullpen that strike hitters out, not induce fly balls. Citi Field isn't becoming Yankee Stadium, it's just giving left handed hitter Duda and Granderson the space they need to knock a few more out of the ballpark. All in all, the fences are apparently not pulled in to accommodate any one player, though I just mentioned two players that it will help regardless, but the fences have been moved in to make Citi Field more "symmetrical and less Gimmicky" as one team official put it.
