Evicted from Tropicana Discipline by Hurricane Milton, on November 14, the Tampa Bay Rays introduced that the workforce would play the 2025 Main League Baseball season at George M. Steinbrenner (GMS) Discipline in Tampa, the spring coaching residence of the New York Yankees and common season residence of their Lo-A minor league workforce. We’re beginning to get some details about what the 2025 season in Tampa will appear like.
Spring coaching will proceed as traditional, with the Rays in Port Charlotte and the Yankees in Tampa. After the final Yankees residence spring sport, Rays employees will transfer in and provides the place a Rays-themed glow-up.
Listed here are a number of highlights, as per a Rays memo:
The Rays will likely be chargeable for promoting common season tickets, and can retain all ticket income (however they may even cowl the bills of operating the stadium). The Rays may even pay to enhance the present observe discipline that can possible be the place the Yankees Lo-A workforce, the Tarpons, will play.
There could also be some enhancements made to dugouts, clubhouses and some different areas to fulfill MLB requirements.
This settlement is for the common season — if (when?) the Rays make the playoffs there will likely be additional negotiations over phrases.
They’re nonetheless discussing methods to carry Rays branding to the stadium, however apparently not one of the modifications can alter the statue of George Steinbrenner exterior the stadium. (sigh)
Discipline dimensions will stay unchanged.
Gameday operations will likely be run by the Rays and their gameday employees at the side of a restricted variety of Steinbrenner Discipline employees.
The Yankees concession of us – Legends – will present all concessions. [Ed note: yuck, unless they can raise their game from what we’ve seen at spring training games. – ES]
Fan parking will likely be out there in a similar way to Yankees spring coaching video games, with nearly all of parking areas situated at Raymond James Stadium throughout the road. There’s additionally restricted parking on the GMS Discipline car parking zone adjoining to the stadium. Common-season parking charges will likely be decided by the Rays.
Rays gamers for essentially the most half will merely use the house services from the Yankees Spring Coaching with a number of exceptions (there may be some dialogue of proprietary pitching gear which sounds intriguing). Rays entrance workplace employees will largely be situated in rented workplace house in St. Petersburg (800 2nd Avenue South for anybody — which has bought to be an enormous inconvenience) with only a few exceptions.
As for tickets: with the smaller stadium, the Rays aren’t providing a number of the versatile season ticket choices out there at Tropicana Discipline. These eager about season ticket plans can select between full, half, and quarter season choices. Particular person sport tickets will go on sale someday in early 2025.
