Back in 2015, after a string of bad incidents of fans getting hit and injured (sometimes severely) by hard-hit baseballs and/or bats that escaped a player’s hands, the MLB issued a recommendation for teams to increase the safety of teams’ ballparks by expanding the protective netting that had always just been behind home plate. Many teams immediately decided to update their ballparks and put netting up that covered far more of the infield stands than ever before.
It was quite the sea change in baseball safety attitude, as the old “Hey, if you can afford to sit that close, then you should be paying attention!