Vitals:

Location: 126th street & Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York

Opened: April 13th 2009

Owner: New York Mets

Construction Cost: $900 Million

Architect: Populous

Capacity: 41,800


After a historical tenure at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets and baseball betting fans around the league, moved to Citi Field in 2009. Citi Field is located at the adjacent corner to Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York. The new stadium is now the home to future hall of famers Johan Santana, Francisco Rodriguez and Jason Bay.

 

So far in the early season MLB betting on the Mets has been quite enjoyable when visiting Citi Field, as the team has enjoyed a rather successful home record. From April to June, the Mets were able to reel off 27 wins at home, a record in all of baseball.

 

Aside from being the home turf of the New York Mets baseball franchise, Citi Field was bought and funded by the Citi Financial Group in 2006. The owners setup a payment system in which ball park was bought with New York City municipal bonds. Payments of the bonds include a lot of interest and offset the property taxes enforced by the city of New York. Meaning to say that when fans and citizens alike buy municipal bonds, they in effect own the Mets.

 

Although Citi Field is the home of the Mets, the right field corner is known as Utley’s Corner. Chase Utley of the Philadelphia Phillies, a divisional rival of the Mets, hit three home runs in two games during a three game set in the end of June 2009. All three home runs went into the right corner at Citi and have since been named after Utley.

 

As well, on Jackie Robinson day in 2009, the Mets created the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. The Rotunda is located in the front entrance of Citi Field and includes a statue of Robinson and large stone engravings of Robinson’s values.