The warm embrace from a sellout crowd at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday night will be a welcome pick\u002Dme\u002Dup for a Blue Jays team that has returned from the…
And now they return to a new look Rogers Centre – the outfield portions, anyway – looking to give fans reasons to fill the place regularly again for the first time since 2017.
Will season attendance push north of three million as it did in 2016 and 2017 when Toronto led the American League? We shall see.Article content “It’s the first major effort to transition from stadium to ballpark,” team president Mark Shapiro said. “It’s character. It’s nuance. It’s something unique that identifies that ballpark to that city, that fan base to that organization and team.”Article contentBut the Jays don’t want the renovations to be seen merely as a novelty.
It boasts two of the top three hitting players in the American League in leader Matt Chapman .475 and Vlad Guerrero Jr. who was third entering Monday’s play with a .439 average. “The outfield fences and the dimensions and the wall heights … there’s likely to be more doubles and definitely more triples than we had in this ballpark before,” Shapiro said. “It will play different. It’s going to create some new angles and there will be some new action. The rule changes are not just about speeding up the time of games, but about increasing the action.”Article content
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