The D-backs retractable roof at Chase Field “will not be able to open or close” during games this season after the team “did not make the repairs to the cable this offseason,” according to Jeremy Cluff of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. Last season, inspectors informed the team that a broken cable could “potentially endanger fans.” Sections of the ballpark’s roof are “connected by more than four miles of cable strung through a pulley system, which is operated by 200-horsepower motors.” Last season D-backs President Derrick Hall said that the team “intend to repair the cables, but that the repair would take ‘several months.’" But repairs were not made this past offseason as the ballpark was used to host the World Baseball Classic and now the team is using the ballpark as a “concert venue and to host other events.” Hall recently told KNXV-ABC that the team was “now aiming to fix it after the upcoming season” (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 3/27).