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On a typical pro baseball field, there is a pair of dirt circles, about 1 meter in diameter, in the grass near home plate (not the on-deck circles). What are they for?

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On a typical pro baseball field, there is a pair of dirt circles, about 1 meter in diameter, in the grass near home plate (not the on-deck circles). What are they for?

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They are (or at least they were historically) used during practice and warm-ups as a place for coaches to stand and hit grounders and fungos without wearing out the grass in one spot.