Spring Training Online

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 […]

The next time someone questions the economic impact of spring training on a community, just pass them along to Vero Beach, where the loss of the Los Angeles Dodgers after Spring Training 2008 had a significant — and traceable — effect on the local economy. Sales-tax receipts in Indian River County, where Vero Beach is […]

Spring Training 2012 will be here before we know it, which is why planning for the new Boston Red Sox has already begun in earnest, with a conceptual site plan released to Lee County officials this week. We already know some things about the facility: It will be located in an undeveloped part of Lee […]

With the defection of the Chicago White Sox this year and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies after Spring Training 2010, Tucson officials are proactively seeking a pro Japanese team to fill the slack at Tucson Electric Field as a member of the Cactus League. The Pima County Sports and Tourism Authority authorized Jack Donovan […]

Scheduled to open in Spring Training 2011, the new spring-training home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies should raise the bar for spring-training facilities, according to HKS’s Mo Stein, who gave us a sneak preview of the project. The first spring-training complex ever built on Native American tribal land, the 140-acre project will be […]