Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Alex Wooden, who’s presently with the Oakland Athletics, has pitched in each Main League Baseball stadium besides Comerica Park in Detroit. Nonetheless, he’s conversant in it.
“Detroit might be one of many worst, fattest mounds,” he mentioned. “You don’t even should get on it. You possibly can simply see it.”
Wooden has been vocal on social media this season about how the mounds differ from crew to crew. He doesn’t perceive why every ballpark is totally different as a substitute of the league having a regular to make all of them the identical.
“I’ve been speaking about it for years. You’d suppose one firm would simply produce a mound that’s the very same throughout all of baseball after which all of the grounds crew must do would principally be to handle the rubber and the touchdown holes,” Wooden instructed The Athletic. “However I wouldn’t say there’s one mound that’s the identical as the following, typically talking.”
Wooden was requested to offer his prime 5 mounds he has pitched on and his reply was a bit of stunning. Dodger Stadium, Petco Park and Yankee Stadium are all tied for the perfect within the league by his requirements.
“These three, for certain, are a few of the greatest,” Wooden mentioned. “The clay they use, the way in which the mound stays collectively, you don’t get massive holes within the rubber or on the touchdown spot, simply the way in which that it’s taken care of by the grounds crew.”
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