Blue Jays announce even more Rogers Centre upgrades for 2025 season

It's been a tough season to be a Toronto Blue Jays fan. Ahead of Monday's slate of action the team has a 58-66 record, is in last place in their division and sitting 11.0 games back of the final wild card spot in the AL.

However, as unproductive as the organisation has been on the field, it's been a different story off it. More specifically, with all of the renovations of Rogers Centre which have been undertaken in recent offseasons.

It began with installing a new AstroTurf field ahead of the 2021 season and continued with upgrading the video board and lighting a year later. However it was the next two offseasons which saw the most substantial renovations, as the Blue Jays undertook a significant $300M stadium upgrade.

This project included the complete redesign of the outfield wall and dimensions and the bullpen area. To help enhance the fan experience, the projected also involved creating an outfield district with five "neighbourhoods".

Looking more like a ball park

On many levels these renovations have been a success, making Rogers Centre look less like a stadium and more akin to a ball park ... at least on the inside. The Blue Jays have made sure to get the message out to as many fans as possible, including releasing hype videos.

At the same time though, there have been plenty of complaints with the continued increase in costs to attend a ball game at Rogers Centre. In addition, fans will only put up with so much, if the product on the field isn't good enough.

Regardless, this hasn't stopped Mark Shapiro and company from wanting to continue focusing on improving Rogers Centre. As per Adam Laskaris of blogTO, the Blue Jays have now announced more upgrades.

Laskaris writes that an email was sent to Blue Jays season ticket members, with details of a new corner club in right field. Renovations will begin once the current campaign has concluded and as things stand, the new corner club is expected to be ready for the beginning of the 2025 season.

The Less Than Jays podcast took to social media, to share an image contained within the email. It would seem they are less than enamoured with the latest round of renovations:

Laskaris goes on to include some more information, noting the corner club will be accessible to season ticket members in sections 110 to 113, where the renovations will take place. There is also expected to be a private bar at field level and part of the corner club will be located under the visitors' bullpen, which was previously renovated itself.

What about "renovations" ON the field?

Again, we have no doubt these renovations will continue to make Rogers Centre more aesthetically pleasing to the average fan. However, that same average fan has to be concerned about continuing to be able to afford a trip to the ball park to watch the Blue Jays play live.

Further, if the ball club isn't performing on the field, at some point it doesn't matter how good your surroundings are. As things stand the Blue Jays are projected to finish with their worst record since 2019, when they went 67-95.

Love him or hate him -- and many people are in the latter category -- Steve Simmons' recent scathing critique of Shapiro carried a lot of merit. This was highlighted by the Toronto Sun columnist writing: "Shapiro’s big calling card as president of the Jays is what he’s done redecorating. If you need someone to finish your basement, call him. If you need someone to build a baseball team, maybe you should call someone else."

We have no doubt the latest renovations will be an impressive success which has fans clamouring to visit and experience the new corner club. However, at some point the novelty will wear off, and sooner than later if actually winning games becomes too much of a novetly itself.