Notes: Lefty Justin Steele threw in an extended spring training game Friday.
Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer pointed out to center field, where the Fenway Park wall comes to a point, and Pete Crow-Armstrong’s gaze followed the gesture.
“That triangle is so unbelievably deep,” Hoyer explained later.
The decal on the wall indicates that it’s 420 feet. Wrigley Field, by comparison, is 400 feet to center field.
Crow-Armstrong was roaming Fenway’s unique center field for the first time in his major-league career Friday. Hoyer, a former longtime Red Sox executive, had watched more than enough games at the ballpark to pass on exactly how it plays.
The Cubs returned to Fenway on Friday for the first time since 2017. It wasn’t only rookies who were playing in the storied building for the first time.
“I’m excited to go on the field there,” second baseman Nico Hoerner said. “Obviously, you get there a little early, walk around, go out to the [Green] Monster. Still a fan of the game, obviously, so it’ll be really exciting.
