Renovated Doak Field features a lot more artificial turf

Photo by Nicholas Faulkner/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesNC State athletics posted a couple snippets of the still-being-renovated Doak Field on Twitter yesterday, causing a bit of a hullaballoo. The reason for the consternation: the addition of more artificial turf to the field.

See here:

(Here’s that image blowed up.)

NC State felt like one of the last places still resisting this transition, and as a would-be cranky old baseball person, I don’t much care for this, but I get it. It’s a lot easier and less expensive to maintain the artificial turf, and anyway, players don’t seem to have a problem with playing on it.

It’s weird not seeing dirt in the basepaths, though. And if the natural grass…