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Arizona Diamondbacks stadium: Could smaller Chase Field be option to keep team in Phoenix?

As questions continue to swirl around the future of the Arizona Diamondbacks in Arizona, one writer has offered a potential solution to the team's stadium situation: reducing the capacity of Chase Field.

USA TODAY Sports' Gabe Lacques addressed the team's stadium situation in a story discussing declining attendance in baseball.

Of the Diamondbacks, he wrote: "The Arizona Diamondbacks can escape their Chase Field lease in 2022 if they build a new stadium within Maricopa County; the team gained that right by agreeing to drop a lawsuit claiming the county owed $187 million in repair and renovations to Chase Field, which opened in 1998.