Yes, the Braves considered putting a retractable roof on their new stadium.
“I think it was a relatively brief conversation,” Derek Schiller, the team’s president of business, recalled.
After rejecting a roof for reasons of cost and baseball tradition, the Braves asked the architects of SunTrust Park for a design that “would have as many of our seats covered as possible, outside of having a roof,” Schiller said.
One result of that directive is easily noticed at the stadium construction site in Cobb County these days: The steel framework for a wide canopy hangs above the upper deck, protruding as much as 60 feet over what eventually will be rows of seats.