“Behind the Scenes: How a Hidden Backup Grass Plan Could Change the Game for Oakland’s Baseball Teams!”

“It’s not a secret that players prefer playing on natural grass, across the board. Right, everybody knows that, players know that,” Cook said. “I think that’s what kind of pushed this thing toward natural grass. We never said it wasn’t doable, we never said it was going to be ideal versus same thing with synthetic grass. I think at the end of the day we could do both, make them both work.”

Still, high-traffic areas — such as in front of the mound, around home plate, shortstop-second base area — Cook expects will likely need some work for wear and tear by May or early June, pulling from nearby backup fields. Drones will help monitor the field conditions daily along with on-field sensors to determine areas needing to be re-sodded. A watering system has been installed under the infield clay as well to complement the daily watering.

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