The Tampa Bay Rays needed to discover a new place to name house for the 2025 season after Tropicana Discipline was broken by Hurricane Milton.
This week, the Rays revealed plans to play inside their house metropolis. Rays video games will likely be performed subsequent season at George M. Steinbrenner Discipline, the spring coaching house of the New York Yankees.Â
In response to a information launch, Steinbrenner Discipline was touted because the best-prepared stadium within the Tampa Bay area.
Whereas the structural integrity of Tropicana Discipline stays robust, the domed stadium’s roof should get replaced, in keeping with a just lately launched evaluation report.
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George M. Steinbrenner Discipline previous to the beginning of a sport between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees throughout spring coaching in Tampa, Fla., March 29, 2022. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/USA At the moment Sports activities)
“We deeply recognize that the Yankees have graciously allowed us to play at Steinbrenner Discipline for the 2025 season,’’ Rays proprietor Stu Sternberg stated within the assertion. “The hurricane injury to Tropicana Discipline has compelled us to take some extraordinary steps.”
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Repairs to Tropicana Discipline will price an estimated $55.7 million and could possibly be accomplished previous to the beginning of the Rays’ 2026 common season, in keeping with the evaluation report.
The roof of Tropicana Discipline is broken the morning after Hurricane Milton hit the area Oct. 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photograph/Julio Cortez)
“We’re blissful to increase our hand to the Rays and their followers by offering a serious league high quality facility for them to make the most of this season,” an announcement from Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner stated. “We perceive how significant it’s for Rays gamers, workers and followers to have their 2025 house video games happen inside half-hour of Tropicana Discipline.”
The Yankees’ minor league affiliate, the Tampa Tarpons, use the ballpark all through the summer time. It’s unclear how the workforce will likely be affected by the arrival of the Rays. Steinbrenner Discipline is an out of doors area and may maintain as much as 11,000 followers.
A Tampa Bay Rays hat and glove throughout the seventh inning of a sport towards the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2023. (Scott Taetsch/USA At the moment Sports activities)
The Rays is not going to be the one MLB franchise using a minor league stadium subsequent season. The Athletics performed their last sport on the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in late September and are slated to compete at a ballpark in Sacramento till their new stadium is in-built Nevada.
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stated the league most popular that the Rays discover a technique to maintain house video games of their area in 2025.
“Given the numerous challenges attributable to Hurricane Milton, I recognize the arduous work and collaboration between the 2 groups,” Manfred stated in a launch. “This final result meets Main League Baseball’s targets that Rays followers will see their workforce play subsequent season of their house market and that their gamers can stay house with out disruption to their households.”
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