Everything you need to know about 2025 Spring Training
Spring Training is right around the corner.
So as clubs prepare to report to Arizona and Florida to gear up for the 2025 season, here is everything you need to know, including start dates for workouts and games for all 30 teams.
Where is Spring Training held?
The 30 Major League Teams' Spring Training sites are split evenly between Arizona and Florida. Arizona-based teams compete in the Cactus League, all of them clustered in a tight radius around the greater Phoenix area. Florida-based teams compete in the Grapefruit League, where teams are a bit more spread out, with some located on the state's west coast and others on its east coast.
There are 23 different ballparks across those two states that play host to Spring Training, with seven of them shared between two teams.
Cactus League teams: Angels, Athletics, Brewers, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants, Guardians, Mariners, Padres, Rangers, Reds, Rockies, Royals, White Sox
Grapefruit League teams: Astros, Blue Jays, Braves, Cardinals, Marlins, Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Phillies, Pirates, Rays, Red Sox, Tigers, Twins, Yankees
When do teams report to Spring Training?
"Pitchers and catchers are reporting," is a sentence that brings a lot of excitement every year, because it means that baseball is almost back. While some players may work out informally at teams' Spring Training complexes prior to that point, each team has two official dates for players to arrive at camp: one for pitchers and catchers, who need more time to ramp up for the season, and another, generally five or six days later, for the rest of the position players.
The Cubs, who will face the Dodgers in the season-opening Tokyo Series, have the earliest first workout dates in 2025: Feb. 9 for pitchers and catchers, and Feb. 14 for the full squad. Every team will hold its first pitchers and catchers workout no later than Feb. 13, and its first full-squad workout no later than Feb. 18.
When do Spring Training games begin?
The Cactus League schedule gets underway on Feb. 20, with a contest between the Cubs and Dodgers, just over a month before they meet in the Tokyo Series from March 18-19. The Grapefruit League starts a day later, with the Rays and Yankees playing at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, which is the Yankees' Spring Training home but this year also will host the Rays during the regular season due to damage sustained by Tropicana Field during Hurricane Milton.
Here is a look at the first Cactus or Grapefruit League game of 2025 for all 30 MLB teams, each of which will take place by Feb. 22:
- Angels: Feb. 22 vs. Mariners (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Astros: Feb. 22 vs. Nationals (1:05 p.m. ET) and at Mets (1:10 p.m. ET)*
- Athletics: Feb. 22 at Padres (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Blue Jays: Feb. 22 vs. Yankees (1:07 p.m. ET)
- Braves: Feb. 22 at Twins (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Brewers: Feb. 22 vs. Reds (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Cardinals: Feb. 22 at Marlins (1:10 p.m. ET)
- Cubs: Feb. 20 at Dodgers (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Diamondbacks: Feb. 21 vs. Rockies (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Dodgers: Feb. 20 vs. Cubs (3:05 pm. ET)
- Giants: Feb. 22 at Rangers (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Guardians: Feb. 22 at Reds (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Mariners: Feb. 21 at Padres (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Marlins: Feb. 22 vs. Cardinals (1:10 p.m. ET)
- Mets: Feb. 22 vs. Astros (1:10 p.m. ET)
- Nationals: Feb. 22 at Astros (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Orioles: Feb. 22 vs. Pirates (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Padres: Feb. 21 vs. Mariners (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Phillies: Feb. 22 at Tigers (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Pirates: Feb. 22 at Orioles (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Rangers: Feb. 21 at Royals (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Rays: Feb. 21 at Yankees (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Reds: Feb. 22 vs. Guardians (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Red Sox: Feb. 22 at Rays (1:05 p.m. ET)^
- Rockies: Feb. 21 at Diamondbacks (3:10 p.m. ET)
- Royals: Feb. 21 vs. Rangers (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Tigers: Feb. 22 vs. Phillies (1:05 p.m. ET)
- Twins: Feb. 22 vs. Braves (1:05 p.m. ET)
- White Sox: Feb. 22 at Cubs (3:05 p.m. ET)
- Yankees: Feb. 21 vs. Rays (1:05 p.m. ET)
*Split-squad games
^The Red Sox also play an exhibition game against Northeastern University on Feb. 21.
Is Spring Breakout back for 2025?
Yes! The event debuted in 2024, featuring matchups such as the Pirates' Paul Skenes against the Orioles' Jackson Holliday before each top prospect made his MLB debut. Many other players who participated in the inaugural festivities also went on to reach the Majors that season.
Now Spring Breakout will return, taking place in both Arizona and Florida between March 13-16. Once again, it will shine a spotlight on the next wave of prospects, some of which will soon become stars at the MLB level.