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Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Wed Feb 3, 2016 10:24 pm
by Geddy
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays' infield is getting an upgrade.
The team announced Wednesday they'll begin installing a regulation dirt infield at Rogers Centre next week that will be ready for the 2016 regular season.
The work will involve excavation of the cement floor at the stadium in the base path and infield areas to a depth of 30.48 centimetres and will impact an area of approximately 1,115 square metres. Layers of gravel, sand and clay will be inlayed in the excavated areas to ensure proper moisture content and conditions suitable to a major league playing surface.
"We are very excited to proceed with this project," senior vice president Stephen Brooks said in a release. "This will both improve the surface for the players and also enhance the atmosphere of the stadium for our fans."
The team says the excavation will not interfere with events being held at Rogers Centre in the coming weeks.
SourceIt's not the grass we were hoping for but it's a start in the right direction. Maybe if they figure out drainage with the dirt they can move up to grass for the rest of the field in the future.
This will be good for the infielders in the long run since they won't have to handle so many odd skips off of turf anymore.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 4, 2016 4:15 am
by uniballer
I was hoping they would put real dirt on the warning track too.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Fri Feb 5, 2016 1:37 am
by North_of_Border
This is great. But what's the long term goal. When are they going all in?
Also like someone mentioned, the warning track should have been added to this announcement
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:52 am
by uniballer
[tweet]https://twitter.com/sbrooksbaseball/status/697070737040019456[/tweet]
LOOKS LIKE WORK HAS STARTED
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:24 am
by rarefind
The MLB the Show 16 gameplay twitch stream features a game at the dome. It features the dirt infield. Really makes the place look a ballpark.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:36 am
by Yosemite Dan
If it looks so much better and helps the wear and tear on infielders then I don't understand why this wasn't done long ago.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:13 am
by DreamTeam09
Yosemite Dan wrote:If it looks so much better and helps the wear and tear on infielders then I don't understand why this wasn't done long ago.
I think it's because the dome was shared with the Argos.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:18 am
by Santoki
Yosemite Dan wrote:If it looks so much better and helps the wear and tear on infielders then I don't understand why this wasn't done long ago.
The Argos.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:03 am
by uniballer
[tweet]https://twitter.com/sbrooksbaseball/status/697410870419263488[/tweet]
Seeing how much work is needed for a simple infield I think the dream of real grass will never come true, it would be way too expensive and complicated.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:09 pm
by YogiStewart
uniballer wrote:
Seeing how much work is needed for a simple infield I think the dream of real grass will never come true, it would be way too expensive and complicated.
??
they just cut concrete and are removing it. at least that's what's happened in the above photo.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:48 pm
by Skin Blues
Yeah, I think concrete removal might be like 0.001% of the cost of putting in grass. Don't know why anybody would worry about that.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:33 am
by akakalakin
Real dirt basepaths or real dirt infield?
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:46 am
by Skin Blues
EDIT: Brain fart. Yeah, will be like Tampa as far as I can tell. Looks like they've only dug up the areas close to the old dirt spots for now. Seems that this is a form of Tulo insurance, to be honest.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:53 am
by akakalakin
Tropicana type dirt infield is what most anticipated, dirt basepaths are not a big deal.
Re: Skydome to have real dirt infield for 2016 season
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 5:57 am
by uniballer
[tweet]https://twitter.com/sbrooksbaseball/status/698244257753206785[/tweet]