In wake of the new shift rule, MLB must address its 'dirty little secret': The dimensions of the infield are not the same in every park. Seriously. jaysonst with the inside dirt on, well, the infield dirt ⤵️
the other day. He’d never noticed. Can’t blame him. And when we asked a high-ranking executive of a National League team about this Wednesday, there was a moment of silence. Then he replied:Well, it is now. But the time has arrived for every one of these ballparks to, um, come clean. That’s because of the new rule banning the shift, starting next season.
plan to enforce the rule literally, according to sources. It will allow up to a foot of leeway in either direction, to account for what one source described as groundskeeping “error.” So it’s still possible the back edge of the dirt in various parks could extend anywhere from 94 to 96 feet from the center of the mound.
In a world in which infielders no longer will be allowed to set up on the outfield grass, the deeper they can find safe, legal haven on that infield dirt, the happier they’ll be. A foot may not seem like much, but if baseball is really a game of inches, who wouldn’t want to order 12 more of them? That still doesn’t mean the infield dimensions in all parks will be exactly the same. And that, according to one of the executives quoted earlier, “doesn’t make any sense — because it kind of means you’re playing by different rules in different parks.”
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