Left field at OPACY going through a big change

[sevastras]

5 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Listening to the interview now and its obvious that this is a performance driven decision.

Well it wasnt because lightning struck the area and melted 1,000 seats and they decided to take them out rather than replace them in order to save tax payer money.

[DrungoHazewood]

22 hours ago, Orioles0615 said:

 

If you look at this that would give one of if not the deepest LFs in baseball. I think that would be to drastic and shortsighted 

I think it would be drastic and remarkably forward-looking.  Major League players outgrew current stadia 30 years ago.  It's long past time to start enforcing much longer fence distances.

[waroriole]

3 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I think it would be drastic and remarkably forward-looking.  Major League players outgrew current stadia 30 years ago.  It's long past time to start enforcing much longer fence distances.

Honestly it would solve a lot of baseball’s problems if they played at Polo Grounds type stadiums. 

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, jabba72 said:

The wall in the photos is listed as 13 feet high. Do we now have a mini green monster? 

It's probably the 288th-highest wall in MLB history.

[DrungoHazewood]

2 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Honestly it would solve a lot of baseball’s problems if they played at Polo Grounds type stadiums. 

Except that the Polo Grounds were 275 to left and 257 to right.  Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World would probably not have reached the warning track at 2022 OPACY.

But, yes, from LC to RC the Polo Grounds were huge compared to any park today. Center was around 500' with the ~50' tall clubhouse in play.  Nobody ever hit it on the fly, much less cleared it.  I don't know that anyone hit it or the Eddie Grant memorial just in front of it on the roll.

[DrungoHazewood]

38 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Could always open up center field all the way to the cement wall and turn it into an OPACY version of the old Yankees Stadium Monument Park. 

I've been Quixotically advocating for exactly this for years.

[Sports Guy]

I really like the changes.  Elias' comments make sense and this should be a more exciting brand of baseball going forward.

[SilverRocket]

JJ Hardy would've hit 3 homers a year in this park.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

20 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I've been Quixotically advocating for exactly this for years.

 I would have thought that a crazy idea several years back, but I'm for it now. Launch angles and uppercut swings are not going away so making ballparks less home run friendly is an option to level the playing field. 

[Can_of_corn]

6 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:

JJ Hardy would've hit 3 homers a year in this park.

The same JJ Hardy that hit the Pesky Pole twice in one game?

I just wanted an excuse to mention that fact.  What a weird occurrence.

[RZNJ]

9 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

The same JJ Hardy that hit the Pesky Pole twice in one game?

I just wanted an excuse to mention that fact.  What a weird occurrence.

Those would not be out in the current OPACY or the new one.  Just saying.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

9 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

The same JJ Hardy that hit the Pesky Pole twice in one game?

I just wanted an excuse to mention that fact.  What a weird occurrence.

That was definitely a weird achievement considering how hard it is to hit Pesky’s Pole one time.

 

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, RZNJ said:

Those would not be out in the current OPACY or the new one.  Just saying.

Sigh...

[Ripken]

Always been in favor of moving that wall back but I hate that design.  

 

[Orioles0615]

Wonder how many big moment home runs now would have not been home runs