Roger's Centre Moving Walls In

[Just Regular]

I heard a take this weekend like all 30 teams want neutral parks to avoid any drag on their ability to value shop both hitters and pitchers, because everybody's a hedge fund manager chasing The Extra 2%.

Elias' wall helping him buy Lyles and Gibson is like a whole exciting new class of equities for the portfolio!

Sure, the 2021 NL RBI champion got kind of a weak sauce contract but the Players probably still like it when the HR total or ERA on the NFT looks right.

[Number5]

Maybe Toronto needs to install chicken wire on top of the wall.  Eh?

Edited January 22, 2023 by Number5

[CharmCityHokie]

1 hour ago, oriole said:

Camden’s left field wall would look so funny. Imagine someone robbing a home run over a 2 foot wall 

Does the Trop still have the 'Crawford Corner'?

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, oriole said:

Camden’s left field wall would look so funny. Imagine someone robbing a home run over a 2 foot wall 

 

[DrungoHazewood]

19 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I guess that the Tigers and Blue Jays aren't planning on ever signing another free agent pitcher.

 

Also a dig at the Yankees.

 

That's strange.  In a world where Rogers Center is already a very good HR park and people are talking about wanting more action and balls in play, the Blue Jays go the other way and decide they want their own Baker Bowl or League Park.

I think it's been a while since a MLB park was a short as 357' in a alley.  When OPACY was 364' to LC medium fly balls would carry out.

The next step will be to make the RC fence 300', and then you don't need a RFer at all.  Just have the second baseman go fetch anything hit that direction.

Or, maybe they're going to make the walls 100' tall all around.

[DrungoHazewood]

12 hours ago, Hallas said:

why did MLB approve this stupid change?  They should be moving all the walls back.

It's a science experiment.  They want to see if a team can go 81 games without hitting or allowing a triple at home.

[Tony-OH]

I just wish the Rogers center would put grass in so it isn't garbage watching the game on TV. Between the Blue Jays and the Rays, the AL East has the two worse stadiums to watch games in within the AL.

 

[Daddy-O's]

Toronto is  a beautiful city, but the Rogers Centre is a dump.

[Can_of_corn]

33 minutes ago, Daddy-O's said:

Toronto is  a beautiful city, but the Rogers Centre is a dump.

They should get the city to take on some debt to give the team $802,809,000.00 to spend on renovations.

[spiritof66]

15 hours ago, Hallas said:

why did MLB approve this stupid change?  They should be moving all the walls back.

This is covered by Official Rule 2.01, formerly Rule 1.04. The following is for some reason referred to as a "Note" to the rule, but I don't think that matters.

NOTE: (a) Any Playing Field constructed by a professional club after June 1, 1958, shall provide a minimum distance of 325 feet from home base to the nearest fence, stand or other obstruction on the right and left field foul lines, and a minimum distance of 400 feet to the center field fence.

(b) No existing playing field shall be remodeled after June 1, 1958, in such manner as to reduce the distance from home base to the foul poles and to the center field fence below the minimum specified in paragraph (a) above.

The rule doesn't say so, but MLB (that is, Commish) is authorized to allow exceptions to the requirements in this rule. He must have given one to the BJs for bringing in CF so that it's three feet under the minimum of 400 feet. Maybe the BJs pointed out that it would be less than a meter under the minimum, or said it would be just aboot 400 feet, and MLB couldn't figure out what they meant.

As you'll see from the article linked below, there have been a number of other exceptions granted, including those for Camden Yards and the new Yankee Stadium. In most of those cases, there was a practical reason for allowing a distance under the minimum. If that was the case in Toronto, I don't know what the reason was.  

https://www.closecallsports.com/2012/06/rule-104-note-minimum-field-dimensions.html

[Hallas]

8 hours ago, spiritof66 said:

This is covered by Official Rule 2.01, formerly Rule 1.04. The following is for some reason referred to as a "Note" to the rule, but I don't think that matters.

NOTE: (a) Any Playing Field constructed by a professional club after June 1, 1958, shall provide a minimum distance of 325 feet from home base to the nearest fence, stand or other obstruction on the right and left field foul lines, and a minimum distance of 400 feet to the center field fence.

(b) No existing playing field shall be remodeled after June 1, 1958, in such manner as to reduce the distance from home base to the foul poles and to the center field fence below the minimum specified in paragraph (a) above.

The rule doesn't say so, but MLB (that is, Commish) is authorized to allow exceptions to the requirements in this rule. He must have given one to the BJs for bringing in CF so that it's three feet under the minimum of 400 feet. Maybe the BJs pointed out that it would be less than a meter under the minimum, or said it would be just aboot 400 feet, and MLB couldn't figure out what they meant.

As you'll see from the article linked below, there have been a number of other exceptions granted, including those for Camden Yards and the new Yankee Stadium. In most of those cases, there was a practical reason for allowing a distance under the minimum. If that was the case in Toronto, I don't know what the reason was.  

https://www.closecallsports.com/2012/06/rule-104-note-minimum-field-dimensions.html

They usually approve a short porch if you increase the wall height.  That's why OPACY's right field was allowed.  But unless they're putting a 12 foot wall in center field I don't really get this.

[HakunaSakata]

On 1/21/2023 at 7:27 PM, Can_of_corn said:

Just think if he had only known he might have accepted the Orioles non-existent offer. 

The Orioles have hypothetically offered contracts to all of the top FA pitchers!

[waroriole]

I wonder if this is to make it easier for fans to throw things at opposing players. A real class organization that one. 

[E-D-D-I-E]

22 hours ago, Daddy-O's said:

Toronto is  a beautiful city, but the Rogers Centre is a dump.

Not sure seeing hundreds of homeless kids is beautiful. The numbers of hungry people in Canada is growing.

[jabba72]

Im also confused why any team would want a 357 power alley in RF. That is just ridiculously short. 366 in LF is almost as bad. Its old Camden Yards bad, which I thought was the shortest in baseball. 

Im guessing a few years or less they'll so how bad of an idea it was and change it back. Because IMO, it is a bad idea. 

Their fans must have voted for this or something.