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Long range planning: Looking at turning a 300 ft softball field #13 into a full size baseball field. Going to take some work, but a concern will be the final dimensions. Main issue is a large building #12 that extends from LC at the power alley with the edge of the building stopping at  dead center. 

By moving home plate back, the building will be exactly 360 ft from home plate from the power alley in LC to dead center. And the building is approximately 20 feet high. 

Option 1 is to move the building and make the field dimensions any way we want it.

Option 2 is to leave the building and create a unique field with a high CF fence that is at the 360 mark to the left side of CF and extends out to a more traditional distance to the RF side. See building 12 in left center.

 

 

 

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you have options that is awesome, I think non traditional is the way to go. I also believe most fields are to big. 

Something like a 310 to corners, 355 to gaps with 380 or so to center IMO are much better numbers then what we typically see. It puts home runs back in play and still isn't a chip shot. 

It seems like you have an opportunity to get a little creative which is always fun...and as a construction I can tell you moving the building is not going to be cheap endeavor. It will be much much much cheaper to rework the field. 

Yes, much work ahead. Eventually, we plan to build a new women's softball field and re-design the current field for baseball. After another look, we may be able to turn the current field clockwise 1 or 1 1/2 hours and make Building 13 into the left field wall. If we can turn the field clockwise in that manner, we can go up to 400 feet in CF and have a more traditional field with a LF monster. 

Now would be a good time to stand out there and check the sun. With that shift, would your hitters be looking directly into the sun? I'm assuming they'll play most games in the afternoon.
If that angle is no good, and you can move the steel building, you could spin the whole thing around so that hitters are facing the more traditional east-northeast (first base line along the road). That might also give you room for standard outfield dimension.

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