Marlins' New Ballpark Will Feature Pool Area, Right Field Porch

Marlins' New 37,000-Seat Ballpark Scheduled To Open In 2012

When the Marlins' new 37,000-seat, retractable-roof building opens in '12, it 
"will provide fans with numerous amenities and activities," according to Joe Frisaro of MLB.com. The Marlins "will have a pool area in left field and a porch in right field." Marlins President David Samson: "The pool is going to be much bigger than our current hot tub. We think it's going to be the size of a pretty nice pool." Frisaro noted the porch in right field "will not exactly be like the one at Citi Field, which is similar to the porch at old Tiger Stadium in Detroit." The Marlins' porch "will be set back into the stands." Samson: "There is going to be in right field, not exactly like Citi Field, a home run porch. There are going to be some great seats, home run seats, if you will, in right field." The "exact details of the porch are still being ironed out, but it will seat roughly 1,000 fans." A mandate from Marlins Owner Jeffrey Loria is to "make as many sections of the new ballpark as cost-friendly as possible." Samson: "All of the seats should be affordable, for starters. But we want people to come to a game and pay a very reasonable amount of money, and be able to enjoy something special in the ballpark." Samson added, "We are really getting into very specific things because all of these decisions have to be made prior to July 1, because once ground is broken and the building is actually being built, the way you avoid overruns is you make all these decisions now" (MLB.com, 5/11).