Spring Training Online

We’ve posted the spring schedule for the Detroit Tigers. You can view the full schedule here. Next spring will mark the Tigers 74th season at Tiger Town in Lakeland, extending the longest-standing relationship between a major league team and a current Spring Training host city. The 2010 spring season marks the club’s 45th consecutive season […]

The Cincinnati Reds released a tentative 2010 spring-training schedule, marking the team’s first appearance in the Cactus League and the Reds’ first spring outside Florida in a non-war year since 1921. As you might expect, the schedule features plenty of games against ballpark mate Cleveland. You can see the full schedule here. The Reds have […]

The Cleveland Indians have released a tentative 2010 spring-training schedule. As you might imagine, it involves lots of games against their new partner at Goodyear Ballpark, the Cincinnati Reds. In fact, the schedule begins with two games against the Reds on March 3 and 4. You can view the full schedule here. The Indians have […]

Roger Dean Stadium will once again be a busy place during spring training 2010, as the Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals will play a full slate of games there. We’ve posted schedules for both teams. The Marlins will begin the proceedings on March 3 with a game against the University of Miami. Full St. […]

Now that we’re deep into the baseball playoffs, teams are finally releasing spring-training schedules. Today we’ve posted the full schedule for the Tampa Bay Rays: you can check it out here. The Rays also released ticket prices and announced Feb. 19 as the date for pitchers and catchers to report.

Alas, poor HoHoKam, I knew thee well. But not well enough to prevent Mesa and the Chicago Cubs from casting covetous eyes toward a new spring-training facility within the city. In past months Mesa officials had held out hope that the Cubs would be happy with additional renovations to HoHoKam Park, but apparently the new […]

Washington’s David M. Schwartz Architects and Sarasota’s Hoyt Architects are the initial choices by the Baltimore Orioles and Janet Marie Smith to make over Sarasota’s Ed Smith Stadium as the spring home of the Orioles. The next move is for Sarasota County to negotiate a design contract with the two firms. The plan is to […]

We may not know exactly when Spring Training 2010 begins, but we do know when it will end: April 4. How do we know this? The Minnesota Twins announced that they will end spring training at brand-new Target Field with a two-game exhibition series against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 2-3. That makes it […]

Because the Japanese professional season starts in mid-March, there will be no Japanese teams training in Tucson in 2010 — but 2011 remains a possibility. That’s the word from a Tucson delegation charged with bringing new blood into Tucson for spring training. The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies are the last two teams training […]

Now available: The 2009 Complete Guide to Spring Training for only $5! With the second edition of The Complete Guide to Spring Training, you’ll have recommended hotel listings, ticket strategies and ballpark information at your fingertips. We’re working on a new edition of the book, but if you’re eager to start your planning now, we’re […]