Sloan Park construction update, January 19

MESA, Arizona — For many years I chronicled the 1060 Project, the work on renovating and restoring Wrigley Field.

Today, I’m switching things up a bit, and will tell you about the new scoreboard that’s going up at the Cubs’ Spring Training home, Sloan Park.

Sloan Park opened in 2014 and almost from Day 1, its scoreboard was antiquated and out of date. Here’s a photo I took of it last November during an Arizona Fall League game:

As you can see, the scores themselves are hard to read, especially with the new nets that are now required at MLB parks, and the board is quite small, about the same size as the advertising boards on either size.