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Update: The Cleveland Indians tweeted out a pic today of the scoreboard as it stands now at Progressive Field. Things are certainly happening!


Originally posted: Dec. 7, 2015 at 8:18 a.m.

Good Monday morning, Cleveland. We woke up to some great baseball news today: Progressive Field is installing a new scoreboard for the 2016 season.

Here’s the word straight from the horse’s mouth:

The new scoreboard, manufactured and installed by Daktronics, will feature premier high-definition technology for every fan at Progressive Field. It measures 59 feet high by 221 feet wide, amounting to 13,000 square feet of active display area.

The project includes other boards throughout the ballpark which will enhance fans’ experience by providing greater access to statistics, scores from around the league and sound quality. The project also includes a state of the art new sound system to be installed for the 2016 season.

“The new boards will significantly enhance our fans’ experience at Progressive Field,” said Neil Weiss, the Indians Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer. “This project increases our ability to deliver a world-class in game experience, delivering stats, highlights and player profiles in large, high-definition formats.”

The scoreboard revamp will take place alongside the Phase Two renovations, which include a new club behind home plate, new local specialty concessions throughout the ballpark, and more.

This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2015.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

6 replies on “Update: Here’s What the Scoreboard at Progressive Field Currently Looks Like”

  1. “This project increases our ability to blast advertisements in our customers’ faces.”

    Fixed.

    Not sure what was wrong with the old scoreboard. The manual scoreboards at Fenway Park work fine. “The fan experience” there is “enhanced” by a ballclub that actually competes for World Series titles.

    Any word on what percent of this scoreboard is being paid for with tax money?

  2. Meanwhile, clubs that want to actually compete for a World Series title are signing top free agents and making shrewd roster moves to bolster the back-end of the starting rotation, bullpen and bench.

  4. I’m almost positive that the Indians deserve a new scoreboard. I mean they won the world series. Oops! That was some other team. They shouldn’t even get new uniforms until they learn how to win. Why don’t they sell beer and soda and hot dogs at a normal price so that it’s affordable for the working class fans to come down to a game without taking out a loan. The scoreboard being replaced is just stupid. Wake up Cleveland. They spend millions to fix up the browns stadium so they can have the worst record ever. Let’s do the same for the tribe. What a joke. Give the money to the CAVS, at least they can have a winning record.

  5. Really excited for the new scoreboard, the 7,000 fans that attend the game are really going to love it! Look, you can get a tiny beer and a crappy hot dog for cough reasonable prices cough, but I could care less about it. I’d pay $20 for a beer OR hot dog if I knew the Indians were going to be winning the world series. The fans are hungry for a winning, talented team, and right now that’s the Cavs, so they get my dollars and support. How much do they charge for a beer or hot dog at the Cavs? Don’t know and don’t care, I buy one of those $8 burgers they have and then I watch a good team play at a high level. If I want to watch a bad baseball team, I can watch rec kids baseball and get my hot dog from the concession stand for 50 cents and drink beer at home for about the same price. Seriously people.

  6. Less than a year after all you ‘SWIPES made your comments … we happed to win the WS.
    But the scoreboard attracted 30-40 thousand every game we played IN CHICAGO and it was because they could all watch it on 13,000 sqft instead of 7 or 8. Got it??

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