Giants president Farhan Zaidi was out to dinner with members of the club’s ownership group one night in spring training when an epiphany struck him.



It arrived with the force of a nighttime breeze off the bay. It nearly knocked him off his feet.



One of the owners, making casual conversation, asked whether the time has come for the Giants to reconfigure their beauty of a ballpark on the shores of McCovey Cove. Should they remove the hazard of bullpens in foul territory? And if so, should they seize that moment as an opportunity to reassess whether their pitcher-friendly ballpark has shifted from charming and idiosyncratic to disadvantageous and extreme?



Should they finally fill in the expanse in right-center field known as Triples Alley?



Yes, Zaidi found himself saying. Yes, we should take a look at this. Absolutely, we should. Why the heck not?



This is not a rogue or reckless opinion. Zaidi is not alone. Acting CEO Rob Dean, citing the...