The MLB wants a good, consistent, infield surface. The only way to get that is to source it from one place, it makes sense.

Baseball is full of cults. Some teams will request they bats to be made an X day of the week and not the other. Player will wear same equipment for years or same underwear from previous game if they had a good game.

@@copeyano718 isn't that superstitions, not cults?

⁠​⁠@@copeyano718thats called superstitions not cult

Notice how no one asked him where he played?

So you have been an infielder. Only four positions, first ,second, shortstop, third. I wonder home plate and pitchers mound get the same treatment.

Do you or your loved ones have mesothelioma?

I’d guess Tampa due to the Trop having a fixed roof, and Toronto because of Skydome's retractable roof and artificial turf. The other two...maybe Miami and Milwaukee?

I know for sure the Blue Jays get theirs from a quarry in Ontario.

I live in Pittsburgh and my whole yard is red clay.

@@goldwinger5434yeah this is that state.

I'd say it's a reference to baseball, with minor leagues being called a farm system.

It’s a quarry

Played by adults that will always make more money than you, regardless of how hard you work... Hope that helped soothe your butthurt....

Quarry

@@OpinionatedPeach A quarry is a type of mine. Nice pedantry though

Amen. Then they show layers immediately after which I have a book that dates it closer to 6000 years. Even if u don’t agree to that part I’m glad u caught the 300 million casual years

Lighten up Francis.

Baseball should be played on a grass field, during the day, and with wooden bats, as the Lord intended.

@@sdsmt99cute!

Haha even when the Christ Jesus spoke of the four soils, He didn't speak of plastic dirt. At least we still have the crack of the bat.@@chuckinhouston9952

Amen.

It was explained at the beginning and end of the video. Reaction to weather, consistency of play, ease of maintenance.

I still play. I slide on natural dirt. It sucks really bad.

Well yeah it's baseball and the players are human.

Us kids weren’t fielding 110 mph lasers

No u fund the business. The business hires a guy to make decisions. This business is a booming one.

As the Lord intended.

Good luck with that in hot weather cities like Arlington, Tampa, Miami, and Phoenix. Chase Field in Phoenix used to have grass. Eventually, it became too expensive to open/close the roof, maintain the grass, and the HVAC off/on (to ensure the fans are comfortable) on a daily basis.

@@effend446 - there is some new soccer stadium IIRC in a South American country where the entire field of grass is in sections, that they mechanically sink below the playing level and stack section on top of section. The sections have special lighting on their undersides to support the grass, and I guess there is some type of watering / irrigation system too. Crazy what they will do to have grass in an enclosed playing area.

Just like you boating on the water. What a waste fuel and co2 emissions

They don't.

Why?

@@CatholicGaming Teams use dirt unique to their region. If they didn't, it would harm the grass surrounding the infield. Back in the 1980s, most teams used anything they got. If you look at old video footage, you can see that over time, the grass around the infield ended up dead or destroyed. The Atlanta Braves use a specialty mix. If you look at video from Turner Field and Trust Park, you can see that their infield dirt is a darker color than most MLB stadiums.

@@marshallarnold-ep7nn​ That would be false. In San Diego, we use this mix. Not saying that I know what Atlanta uses, but your reasoning behind why it's different is wrong. While clay will kill grass, it should be vacuumed or thrown back to the skin during postgame maintenance. If done correctly where the grass is grown, what species, or cultivar is irrelevant. Coloration is dependent on what color/mix of turface you throw over the skin. To answer the question of why they do or don't is just down to preference. Some guys have the stuff they like and most like this stuff. Not coming after you at all, just wanted to give out some free knowledge.

Cus theyre an NL East rival 😂​@CatholicGaming

yet no complaints on the billionaire owners who make it happen and get paid & don't even play......

It's not the millionaires fault that you are not a millionaire.

American kids / Americans, are smartest, hardest working, most inventive / innovative, most productive, ... people on earth. that is why almost everything that the rest of the world uses and depends on, is an American invention / innovation. maybe stop believing propaganda and clickbaity lazy takes and use your head / brain