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489 sats \ 11 comments \ @grayruby 16 Mar Stacker_Sports

Counting down the Best Ballparks in MLB from 28 to 1. Featuring one per week throughout the baseball season (which starts this week with the Dodgers and Cubs playing international games in Tokyo).

With Tropicana Field and Oakland Coliseum out of the mix we will have only 28 parks in this year's ranking.

From worst to first we start with #28:

Chase Field- Arizona Diamondbacks

Perfectly decent, but not remarkable, with the roof open but a dark, cavernous warehouse vibe with the roof closed. Unfortunately, due to the summer heat in Arizona the roof is closed for 75% of home games. Not having the Coliseum and Tropicana Field to compete with this season hurts Chase Field and lands it last on my list of best ballparks.

#27 coming at you next week...

Sats for all, GR

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40 sats \ 5 replies \ @BlokchainB 16 Mar

Come on gray! 28? I been to a few ballgames here this stadium is nice! 28th you are crazy! Have you ever been here?

75 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby OP 16 Mar

No I haven’t been to that one so just going off watching games on tv and pics. I think it looks decent with the roof open but not with it closed. Which park would you rank 28?

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 16 Mar

You gotta go there. This is a nice park. The pictures don’t do it justice. I’m not sure to be honest. I went to the twins and nationals stadium and I like the Arizona one more than those two

210 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 16 Mar

More than the Twins stadium? Wow. That's bordering on top 10 park in my book. Nationals park will be pretty low on my list. I think Chase is a lot like Globe Life Field, which I have been too, but Globe Life has the one benefit of being newer so it is less cavernous but it suffers from the same warehouse/darkness problem. Rogers Centre in Toronto is similar when it is closed but it isn't closed that often once the weather gets good and they did a nice job renovating it so I would have it higher up my list of stadiums with a roof but generally I don't like baseball played under a roof so I will also have Rogers Centre in the bottom third of my list.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 16 Mar

ahh Okay so we are getting the gray bias. I like the Arizona stadium look. I’m not a huge fan of the large open air stadiums like the Twins

113 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 16 Mar

I promise to give you a bad large open air stadium next week for number 27.

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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 16 Mar

I didn't know Chase Field lost its dirt strip between home plate and pitchers mound.

"KeyHole" is the term for this feature, which I just learned.

https://www.sportsrec.com/498707-why-is-there-a-dirt-strip-between-home-plate-the-pitchers-mound.html

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 16 Mar

I do like the aesthetics of it but Comerica Park is the only park that still uses it.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 16 Mar

Interesting! This looks smaller than the smallest of Cricket grounds. Why did you miss the facts like the sitting capacity and the dimensions? Do all Baseball field area dimensions are similar? Or is like Cricket which can be shorter or longer depending on various factors?

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 16 Mar

They are all with same dimensions foul line to foul line but the fences can be within a range in terms of distance and height. Also the amount of foul territory is variable depending on the stadium.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 16 Mar

Quite the similar to Cricket which also has variance on the fences. Sometimes it's only 60m and sometimes it can be upto 90m. The pitch is always 22 yards and the inner circle is always at 30 yards.