By Brian Joura
The Mets’ Double-A home for over 40 years has been in Binghamton, New York. The Rumble Ponies play in Mirabito Stadium and the dimensions seem fairly normal. It’s 330 feet down both lines and 400 to center field. Overall, it’s a slight pitchers’ park in a pitchers’ league, although there’s quite regularly a hitter who enjoys a tremendous boost from playing their home games there.
While he didn’t have a ton of playing time in the Mets’ system, top prospect Drew Gilbert had a 1.248 OPS in BNG, compared to a .706 in road parks after the trade. In 2016, Dominic Smith had a .981 OPS in BNG, compared to a .677 mark in road parks. It’s happened often enough that the phrase “Binghamton Bump” is a regular part of my top prospect updates.
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