Why a Pennsylvania Dirt Farm Supplies Most MLB Teams’ Infields | WSJ A to B

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Duraedge Products, Inc. creates infield mixes for 26 out of 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, including the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. Their key ingredient: Pittsburgh red bed claystone. Excavators will mine and process approximately 30,000 tons of clay over the course of a year for Duraedge; then the company mixes it with silt and sand to create infield mix. But how does the clay get from mine to the MLB ballpark?
WSJ explains how a single dirt farm in Pennsylvania takes clay and turns it into infield mix used in MLB stadiums.
Additional camera work by Nikki Walker, Amber Bragdon, and Kaitlyn Wang.
0:00 Infield mix
0:46 What makes this clay special
1:46 Processing facility
3:35 Baseball stadiums
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@toastnjam7384 10 месяцев назад

Never occurred to me that infield dirt had to have special qualities and mostly came from one place. I knew that Baseball rubbing mud came from one place in New Jersey.

@damienirvin777 10 месяцев назад

The MLB wants a good, consistent, infield surface. The only way to get that is to source it from one place, it makes sense.

@copeyano718 9 месяцев назад

Baseball is full of cults. Some teams will request they bats to be made an X day of the week and not the other. Player will wear same equipment for years or same underwear from previous game if they had a good game.

@civlyzed 9 месяцев назад

@@copeyano718 isn't that superstitions, not cults?

@tristanp5605 9 месяцев назад

⁠⁠@@copeyano718thats called superstitions not cult

@user-re3fd6jl5k 10 месяцев назад

If I worked at that dirt farm, I’d be in awe everyday that someday the rocks of dirt I touch would seen be on the biggest stage.

@Dfgbuiiyyyybb 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating I didn’t know that so much goes into an infield

@tylermiller8142 10 месяцев назад

Awesome coverage! Good knowledge with no agenda 🙏

@heavyizthacrown-5842 10 месяцев назад

Great video WSJ.

@hughjaass3787 10 месяцев назад

I've played many games on your Infield Dirt (mostly AA, & AAA, but many at Citi, Atl, LA Fenway, Yankee, Wrigley, & others) Sir, and I can only say, "BRAVO" 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 THANK YOU!

@marshallarnold-ep7nn 10 месяцев назад

Notice how no one asked him where he played?

@user-er3ri6sc3j 9 месяцев назад

So you have been an infielder. Only four positions, first ,second, shortstop, third. I wonder home plate and pitchers mound get the same treatment.

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing the latest information Very useful and helpful..🇲🇨🌼❤️⚒️⛏️✋👍👍

@JGunit 9 месяцев назад

So cool seeing this. Done business with them for a ND. field

@paulsipler6124 10 месяцев назад

Used to haul out of this location and bring it back easy never knew the work that went into it

@Astr0b0y8 10 месяцев назад

So cool. But that color is what gets me. Love the red

@NowThatsALongBall 9 месяцев назад

As someone who’s entire career has been based on excavating, this was awesome.

@crispysocksss 9 месяцев назад

Do you or your loved ones have mesothelioma?

@fortunatejeremy 9 месяцев назад

As a rec league slo-pitch player, I wish I could play on this quality of a field. He'll, even half as good. Actually I'd be happy with a quarter as good. Scratch that. A tenth as good. Screw that - no gopher holes would be nice.

@TacoTot 10 месяцев назад

What I tell my haters 3:20

@vitaly6312 9 месяцев назад

This video is more interesting to watch than a baseball game.

@dreams2reality410 9 месяцев назад

Amazing

@kwatai9298 9 месяцев назад

respect !!!

@user-ob5rg6ne6l 10 месяцев назад

Interesting sports engineering ❤

@WortmanExpress-ey1vj 9 месяцев назад

Sick

@mc88dx 10 месяцев назад

I wonder which mlb teams don't use them and who they buy from instead.

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 10 месяцев назад

I’d guess Tampa due to the Trop having a fixed roof, and Toronto because of Skydome's retractable roof and artificial turf. The other two...maybe Miami and Milwaukee?

@C8mon 10 месяцев назад

I know for sure the Blue Jays get theirs from a quarry in Ontario.

@adampalmer5399 9 месяцев назад

When I was in high school in 2001-04 we had the nicest field in the whole county that spanned about 7 county’s & they went with brick dust which was what a lot of nicer high schools did & it was great for not getting rained out because it would soak it up quick but sliding on that stuff would leave major strawberries!🤣💯

@BachBeethovenBerg 9 месяцев назад

Give new meaning to the phrase "cheaper than dirt."

@jeremycummings6702 9 месяцев назад

We have Red Clay here in Southern Utah too. Some of it is right at the surface!!!!

@goldwinger5434 9 месяцев назад

I live in Pittsburgh and my whole yard is red clay.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

@@goldwinger5434yeah this is that state.

@velmer21 9 месяцев назад

Looks like a episode from gold mine. Parker Schnabel got his hands in this as well. You got your gold grates set right?

@cruch8508 9 месяцев назад

i like how the made it sound like their clays got magical properties that no where else has it. good marketing selling dirt for a premium for no reason at all

@dannyfisher4457 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, will show dad too

@Gel-Man 9 месяцев назад

RU-vid is so good

@kab6754 10 месяцев назад

I didn't even know or consider something like this when it's extremely obvious

@biglogdogg 2 месяца назад

Why do all news organizations think all heavy equipment is a “bulldozer”? Hahahaha

@jefersonzunino3091 10 месяцев назад

The dirt guy, 😂

@shiiviie 9 месяцев назад

2:29 thought that was keef

@nonamedpleb 10 месяцев назад

Funny they call it "Dirt Farm" like they grow the clay. It's a mine.

@damienirvin777 10 месяцев назад

I'd say it's a reference to baseball, with minor leagues being called a farm system.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

It’s a quarry

@TeeJay_757 9 месяцев назад

Add a sluice box and you basically got a gold mine there

@oeao2841 Месяц назад

Who are the 4 teams that dont use that dirt?

@SawMan247 8 месяцев назад

@ 3:19

@julianbelfrage8768 10 месяцев назад

Waters not an element its a molecule... just saying.

@robdwilk 9 месяцев назад

go phillies

@mikeibanez 10 месяцев назад

26 out of 30 is 86.666… so 87% would have been more apt in the title

@bigbuilder10 9 месяцев назад

Water isn’t an element

@ItsBugsy 10 месяцев назад

yay the environment

@Jimmy_Moon 10 месяцев назад

Dear Grant McKnight. I can't believe you've not thought of this (@ 3:02) for promotion. You should learn to juggle your product. Practice everyday, video a short clip of the practice to upload and get others involved. Then at a baseball game... perform!

@zhaneranger 10 месяцев назад

This is more mining then farming.

@AzrinSunbae 10 месяцев назад

🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

@danedawg100 9 месяцев назад

Tell your editor to fix his audio settings. I don’t feel like being ear r*p*d becuse he didn’t equalize.

@seanwebb605 10 месяцев назад

Now I feel bad about being a baseball fan.

@beachgal2023 9 месяцев назад

What PA politician had a hand in this company's contract? Dirty money trail for sure.

@cliffordcarrier4608 10 месяцев назад

The reference to the number of years that it took to grow this dirt is suspect.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

Amen. Then they show layers immediately after which I have a book that dates it closer to 6000 years. Even if u don’t agree to that part I’m glad u caught the 300 million casual years

@hong-enlin4651 10 месяцев назад

新竹棒球場林志堅表示..............

@59Fif 9 месяцев назад

Idk why but its odd that its one spot in this whole country that is ran by one company like nah sumn little fishy🧐 but anyway GN

@simmonsmb411 9 месяцев назад

Water is a compound not an element.

@user-jz7ny1qc6j 9 месяцев назад

Is it because Pennsylvania has a lot of dirt?

@tjtampa214 10 месяцев назад

Baseball Joe Dirt.

@bigbrotherisasob 10 месяцев назад

The composition of the soil/dirt like this is all over the Ohio and western Pennsylvania area.

@goldwinger5434 9 месяцев назад

It's dirt for a field to play a children's game.

@codymoe4986 9 месяцев назад

Played by adults that will always make more money than you, regardless of how hard you work... Hope that helped soothe your butthurt....

@derekbentley334 9 месяцев назад

Why irrigation? Ohio River Pipeline Western droughts/ Mississippi flooding With hydro power production in between REPLACING COAL AND NUCLEAR POWER AND FUSION

@tsmall07 10 месяцев назад

Dirt farm... Otherwise known as a mine... And not every big yellow piece of equipment is a bull dozer.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

Quarry

@tsmall07 7 месяцев назад

@@OpinionatedPeach A quarry is a type of mine. Nice pedantry though

@seanmark8765 10 месяцев назад

first

@devonsuarez 10 месяцев назад

Presto Whamo

@davewear1361 10 месяцев назад

But yet the players still get errors even without the ball hops that you got as kids on the old ball diamonds at home.

@taylorhorner1065 10 месяцев назад

Well yeah it's baseball and the players are human.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

Us kids weren’t fielding 110 mph lasers

@gadaadhoon 9 месяцев назад

Dirt farm? You mean mine?

@josephzakrzewski9520 10 месяцев назад

It should be against the law to use artificial turf as dirt.

@sdsmt99 10 месяцев назад

Lighten up Francis.

@chuckinhouston9952 10 месяцев назад

Baseball should be played on a grass field, during the day, and with wooden bats, as the Lord intended.

@chuckinhouston9952 10 месяцев назад

@@sdsmt99cute!

@josephzakrzewski9520 10 месяцев назад

Haha even when the Christ Jesus spoke of the four soils, He didn't speak of plastic dirt. At least we still have the crack of the bat.@@chuckinhouston9952

@marshallarnold-ep7nn 10 месяцев назад

Amen.

@ChrisDerkatch 9 месяцев назад

LGM

@derekbentley334 9 месяцев назад

GDP creation by a inks design change on standard circulating moneys currency. FOREVER GDP

@derekbentley334 9 месяцев назад

Black dirt pure soil bottomless

@thewhiteknight02 9 месяцев назад

Dirt farm.

@443DM 10 месяцев назад

Why was I watching this? I don't even like baseball

@ericwieboldt7042 9 месяцев назад

I love how this guy tries to complicate mixing two materials. You dont have to tey and justify your job to us guy

@Jay-py1ow 9 месяцев назад

“300 million years ago” …yeah you lost me after you said that lol

@oeao2841 10 месяцев назад

Now I hope my Braves don't use this dirt

@marshallarnold-ep7nn 10 месяцев назад

They don't.

@CatholicGaming 9 месяцев назад

Why?

@marshallarnold-ep7nn 9 месяцев назад

@@CatholicGaming Teams use dirt unique to their region. If they didn't, it would harm the grass surrounding the infield. Back in the 1980s, most teams used anything they got. If you look at old video footage, you can see that over time, the grass around the infield ended up dead or destroyed. The Atlanta Braves use a specialty mix. If you look at video from Turner Field and Trust Park, you can see that their infield dirt is a darker color than most MLB stadiums.

@FDCARI 9 месяцев назад

@@marshallarnold-ep7nn That would be false. In San Diego, we use this mix. Not saying that I know what Atlanta uses, but your reasoning behind why it's different is wrong. While clay will kill grass, it should be vacuumed or thrown back to the skin during postgame maintenance. If done correctly where the grass is grown, what species, or cultivar is irrelevant. Coloration is dependent on what color/mix of turface you throw over the skin. To answer the question of why they do or don't is just down to preference. Some guys have the stuff they like and most like this stuff. Not coming after you at all, just wanted to give out some free knowledge.

@oeao2841 Месяц назад

Cus theyre an NL East rival 😂@CatholicGaming

@relentlessmadman 9 месяцев назад

Playing in the rain???????? owners spend money, to facilitate making players play in the rain???? owners also hold citys hostage to gget subsidised stadiums! I love Baseball but this kinda sucks!

@NatureOfRealityRadio 10 месяцев назад

Baseball is meant to be played on grass, not synthetic turf.

@chuckinhouston9952 10 месяцев назад

As the Lord intended.

@effend446 10 месяцев назад

Good luck with that in hot weather cities like Arlington, Tampa, Miami, and Phoenix. Chase Field in Phoenix used to have grass. Eventually, it became too expensive to open/close the roof, maintain the grass, and the HVAC off/on (to ensure the fans are comfortable) on a daily basis.

@stevebabiak6997 10 месяцев назад

@@effend446 - there is some new soccer stadium IIRC in a South American country where the entire field of grass is in sections, that they mechanically sink below the playing level and stack section on top of section. The sections have special lighting on their undersides to support the grass, and I guess there is some type of watering / irrigation system too. Crazy what they will do to have grass in an enclosed playing area.

@skinnywaterboys6108 9 месяцев назад

What a waste!!

@snipz127 9 месяцев назад

Just like you boating on the water. What a waste fuel and co2 emissions

@auro1986 10 месяцев назад

why? they are mining something there that they don't want to tell

@kevintyrrell7409 10 месяцев назад

Why can't they just use regular dirt? I don't feel like that was explained well. Is it implied that regular dirt wouldn't have the 'ball bounce' effect? People have been playing baseball on random dirt fields for hundreds of years without having problems, so I don't see the issue.

@sdsmt99 10 месяцев назад

It was explained at the beginning and end of the video. Reaction to weather, consistency of play, ease of maintenance.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

I still play. I slide on natural dirt. It sucks really bad.

@halleradam 9 месяцев назад

Glad to know we taxpayers fund stadium construction so that for-profit ball teams can spend on special dirt.

@OpinionatedPeach 7 месяцев назад

No u fund the business. The business hires a guy to make decisions. This business is a booming one.

@JourneyAtoZ 2 дня назад

This isn’t a new thing at all

@redwoodc-3025 10 месяцев назад

All of this is much needed so a bunch of millionaires can hit a little white ball around....

@02nupe 10 месяцев назад

yet no complaints on the billionaire owners who make it happen and get paid & don't even play......

@marshallarnold-ep7nn 10 месяцев назад

It's not the millionaires fault that you are not a millionaire.

@Susanp195 10 месяцев назад

I'm favored regardless of how bad it gets on the economy, After withdrawing $64k from my investments last week. Investments has been a good thing to do, definitely it helps a lot.

@benv9711 10 месяцев назад

The absurdity that goes into sports. No wonder American kids do so badly in schools

@mariacheebandidos7183 10 месяцев назад

American kids / Americans, are smartest, hardest working, most inventive / innovative, most productive, ... people on earth. that is why almost everything that the rest of the world uses and depends on, is an American invention / innovation. maybe stop believing propaganda and clickbaity lazy takes and use your head / brain

@bigbrotherisasob 10 месяцев назад

A Dirt farm. Hmmm.....