Texas Rangers Third Baseman Todd Frazier Reviews the Turf at Globe Life Field

Texas Rangers third baseman Todd Frazier reviews the playing surface at Globe Life Field.

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00:00 Yeah, I took my first ground balls yesterday and it was a lot of fun.

00:04 It's playing pretty smooth.

00:05 I didn't really get as many as I wanted, but as the days go on,

00:10 I'll get here earlier, stay there after a little longer to see.

00:14 I'm a guy that goes about detail.

00:16 I'm very detail oriented.

00:18 I wanna take about 30 or 40 balls and just roll them down the line,

00:22 see how it plays on a bunt situation or see where the lip is,

00:26 how many times that ball hits the lip and is it gonna bounce high?

00:29 Is it gonna just glide through?

00:32 But yeah, it's playing smooth.

00:33 The surface is great.

00:35 It's a bigger ballpark than I expected.

00:37 I heard that it wasn't as big, but you gotta really hit it to get it out.

00:40 So it's gonna be a lot of first and third singles and a lot of exciting times.

00:46 But yeah, I'm very happy here and it's a beautiful indoor and outdoor facility.

00:51 >> Okay, so with that attention to detail, so much is made of that turf.

00:56 How can you liken it to anything?

01:00 Can you compare it to anything?

01:02 >> As of now, probably not.

01:05 I mean, I know the Diamondbacks have something sort of the same like that.

01:08 It's a lot quicker, but for me, I saw one ball yesterday that Heineman hit,

01:15 that really took off.

01:16 So I'm gonna have to get the coaches to kind of do like a live ground ball contest

01:21 for me at third base.

01:22 I'd like to do that just to see.

01:23 They're gonna have to crush it hard to see what kind of skip or glide it has.

01:27 And it is, it's gonna be a lot quicker like in Arizona as well.

01:31 So that's the one I can compare it to.