Spring Training Online

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 […]

Ed Smith Stadium when the Reds were a tenant. After months and months of speculation and negotiation, the Baltimore Orioles finally settled down and made a long-term commitment to a spring-training facility, signing a 30-year lease to train at Sarasota’s Ed Smith Stadium, former spring home of the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. […]

The Baltimore Orioles and Sarasota County are close to an agreement to bring the team to Ed Smith Stadium for spring training in 2010, but some procedural issues need to be addressed before a $31-million makeover of the ballpark can be launched. The agreement hinges on the county and city coming to terms on a […]

Talks are heating up over the future spring home of the Baltimore Orioles, with team officials meeting today with reps from Lee County — but don’t count out Sarasota just yet. The Baltimore Orioles are at crunch time when it comes to spring training 2010. The team has three options, but none of them are […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks say they’ve narrowed the choice for a new spring-training faciity to three in the greater Phoenix area, but they’re not discussing specifics. D-Backs chief executive Derrick Hall is letting out a few details, however. Two of the three sites are on tribal lands, which would indicate the Salt River Pima-Maricopa and Fort […]

The Cincinnati Reds are looking at a August move to their new spring-training digs in Goodyear, Arizona, as the team prepares for Cactus League play in 2010. The new complex is next to the Cleveland Indians’ training facility. The pair will share Goodyear Ballpark.

Lee County Commissioners have selected a site close to Southwest Florida International Airport as the future home of a Boston Red Sox spring-training camp. It was a site that was almost eliminated from consideration in the early going, both for its location — the site is just barely within the target area for the camp […]

With multiple deadlines at play, the Baltimore Orioles appear close to making a decision about moving spring-training operations to Sarasota or Fort Myers. In both situations, the team would play at an existing facility: Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota or City of Palms Park in Fort Myers. Ed Smith Stadium could be available to the […]

The official numbers confirm what many in baseball have been saying: attendance is down 5 percent in Cactus League games this spring despite the full-time addition of the Indians and Dodgers to the mix. That’s a surprise: many expected the Cactus League to receive a boost from the move of Los Angeles and Cleveland from […]

In his annual spring meeting with reporters, Cubs Chairman Crane Kenney admits the team’s days at Mesa’s HoHoKam Park are numbered and says the team is looking at a new spring-training home. The issue: the team practices at Fitch Field and plays at HoHoKam Park. While HoHoKam Park is a perfectly fine facility and the […]