Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 24, 2004
Draining the Fens

There are lots of renovations underway at Fenway. The field is being dug up and replaced with state of the art drainage and heating.


"It's going to be a drier, safer and better-looking field next year as a result of these changes," said Red Sox president/CEO Larry Lucchino. "The approximate cost is between $1.5 million and $2 million. To put that in perspective, if we save ourselves one rainout next season, the field improvements will have more than paid for itself."

In addition to the new grass and sand-based drainage system, the field will also have a heating system, allowing the grounds crew to prep the grass earlier in the spring and keep it later into the fall.

"If it's not pouring rain, we should be able to play, or play soon thereafter," said Mellor. "It's a modern field now. This is something that will put us back into the modern playing age."


The Sox are going to put in improvements over the winter for the players, fans and press. Sometimes, you don't need a new stadium; you just need to improve what you have.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:09 AM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)
Comments

What would improve it would be about 10,000 more seats so I could take my kids, not sit in the bleachers for less than $250 for the night.

Posted by: Jack Tanner at November 24, 2004 02:28 PM

If you want reasonable prices, don't look to the major leagues. There are plenty of minor league teams who would be happy to have you in the stands for less than ten bucks per seat.

Posted by: David M. Beyer at November 25, 2004 12:47 AM

Man, I wish the Cardinals would learn that they didn't need to put out some rip-off retro stadium to improve...

Posted by: Dan at November 25, 2004 02:39 AM