Arlington, Texas – Nomar Mazara can sit in the visitor’s dugout here at the new Globe Life Field, look out the big vertical window panes behind the seats in left field and see, still intact, the old ballpark that he played in from 2016 through 2019, where he clubbed 41 of the 79 homers he hit in his time with the Rangers.
But he’s not looking out there, nor is he looking back.
“This is a big-league ballpark right here,” he said before the game Tuesday. “This is nice. Everything about it.”
If he’s wistful about anything, it’s the short 326-foot porch down the line in right field – especially playing his home games in spacious Comerica Park these days where a 326-foot drive to right gets caught before the warning track.