For months, the Giants were coy about the new dimensions of Oracle Park, preferring to keep all information private until a press release with renderings went out shortly after the Winter Meetings.
But some eagle-eyed hikers at Papago Buttes in Phoenix might have unknowingly gotten a sneak peak of the changes to Triples Alley.
The Giants are just breaking ground on a state of the art minor league facility in the shadow of the Buttes, where Phoenix turns into Scottsdale. The complex, which is a three-mile drive from Scottsdale Stadium, will have the latest in baseball technology, a sprawling new weight room and modern rehab facilities that the Giants believe will vault them from the bottom of the league to the top in terms of minor league facilities, but the coolest feature might be a very simple one.