With most of the Tropicana Field roof shredded by Hurricane Milton, the Tampa Bay Rays and Major League Baseball must address the team’s short-term and long-term needs for home play just five months before the 2025 regular season starts. (more…)
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Rays make triumphant return to Port Charlotte
The baseball gods were smiling on the patient Port Charlotte spring-training fans Saturday, as the Tampa Bay Rays launched their 2024 season at Charlotte Sports Park after spending last spring at Disney and the Trop. (more…)
FL Gov DeSantis vetoes $35M for Pasco County sports complex, potential Rays spring home
As of one of a series of high-profile cutbacks, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) vetoed $35 million in state funding for a new Pasco County sports complex that could serve as the new Tampa Bay Rays spring home. (more…)
Purchase of Rowdies Not Expected to Affect Rays’ Facility Plans
Despite widespread speculation to the contrary, the Tampa Bay Rays‘ pending purchase of soccer’s Tampa Bay Rowdies (USL) and subsequent gain of an Al Lang Stadium lease is not expected to affect any regular-season or spring training facility plans. (more…)
Stone Crabs to host 2012 FSL All-Star Game
The Charlotte Stone Crabs will be hosting the 2012 Florida State League All-Star Game at Charlotte Sports Park, the team announced today. The game is scheduled for Saturday, June 16, 2012. Charlotte Sports Park is one of the better ballparks in the Florida State League. “It is a great honor to be chosen out of […]
Marauders move McKechnie Field games after canopies deemed unsafe
The Bradenton Marauders (High Class A; Florida State League) moved tonight’s and tomorrow night’s games from McKechnie Field after inspectors determined the roofs over the first-base and third-base sections were unsafe. The problems were discovered during a routine assessment. The games were shifted to Charlotte Sports Park, the home of the Marauders’ opponent, the Charlotte […]
Charlotte County Sports Park / Tampa Bay Rays / Charlotte Stone Crabs
Longtime spring-training aficionados may be able to recognize Charlotte County Sports Park as the former spring home of the Texas Rangers, remodeled to serve as the spring home of the Tampa Bay Rays and the regular-season home of the Charlotte Stone Crabs. Maybe. FAST FACTS Opened: 1988; renovated in 2009 Cost: $5 million original construction; […]