Protective netting at baseball stadiums has been a hot-button topic ever since a foul ball hit by Albert Almora struck a young fan at a Cubs-Astros game in late May.
Wednesday at the Winter Meetings, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced that all 30 teams will have extended netting in place in 2020. Eight teams, including the White Sox, already installed expanded netting in 2019. Everyone else will now have to follow suit.
The White Sox had the netting go all the way to the foul poles, but that isn't a requirement. Seven of the 22 remaining teams will go to the foul poles.
Rob Manfred announces that all 30 teams will have expanded netting next year. 7 will extend to the foul poles. 15 will extend to at least the "elbow" where the stands begun to angle away from the field. The other 8 teams had already expanded their netting in 2019.
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) December 11, 2019
This means Wrigley Field is getting extending netting in 2020. It isn't clear how the extended netting will be implemented at Wrigley Field, but it is coming to the stadium on the North Side.
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