{"id":411387,"date":"2026-01-14T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411387\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:01:07","slug":"moving-outfield-fences-in-costs-less-than-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411387\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving outfield fences in costs \u2018less than $5M\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Royals are spending \u201cless than $5M\u201d to have their Kaufman Field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/13\/royals-make-outfield-changes-adjust-fence-distances-at-kauffman-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/13\/royals-make-outfield-changes-adjust-fence-distances-at-kauffman-stadium\/\">outfield fences brought in prior to next season<\/a>, GM J.J. Picollo told local reporters during a Tuesday news conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">\u201cI don\u2019t have the exact number but it\u2019s less than what you might\u2019ve thought,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Articles\/2025\/02\/17\/royals-extend-evp-gm-jj-picollo-through-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/02\/17\/royals-extend-evp-gm-jj-picollo-through-30\/\">Picollo<\/a> said. \u201cIt\u2019s less than $5 million. As we get closer to the end of the project, we can get more specific.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The change will result in the addition of approximately 150 left-field seats and 80 drink-rail seats in right field. The team will not lose any of its 130 feet of LED boards, though they will be \u201cmoving in and slightly towards the wings,\u201d Picollo said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The team is on schedule to finish the project at least 10 days before Opening Day, Picollo said. Kansas City starts the 2026 season March 27 on the road in Atlanta before its March 30 home opener against the Twins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The LF and RF walls are moving in nine to 10 feet, according to MLB, \u201cstarting close to the foul poles and then tapering toward CF, where 410 feet will remain the distance from homeplate.\u201d The wall height will change from 10 feet to 8.5 feet in most places. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals are spending \u201cless than $5M\u201d to have their Kaufman Field outfield fences brought in prior to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-411387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}