Baltimore Orioles Spring Training 2025

2025 Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Reporting Dates

Pitchers & Catchers First Work Out
February 13, 2025

Full Squad First Work Out
February 18, 2025

Orioles News

 Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Schedule:

The Orioles' 2025 Grapefruit League schedule will begin Saturday, February 22, at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla. against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The club’s 2025 spring schedule features 15 home games, including seven weekend games.

The O’s will face nine different opponents during Grapefruit League play, with eight of the club’s 30 games coming against American League East divisional rivals – Boston Red Sox (two games; one at home), New York Yankees (two games; one at home), Tampa Bay Rays (one game; one at home), and Toronto Blue Jays (three games; two at home).

The Orioles will play a spring-high seven games against the Pittsburgh Pirates, three of which will be at Ed Smith Stadium. Baltimore will also host the Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, and Philadelphia Phillies during the 2025 Spring Training slate.

The team’s 15-game road schedule features four games at the Pirates, three at the Phillies, two at the Tigers and Twins, and one each against the Blue Jays, Braves, Red Sox, and Yankees.

Split-squad dates will be March 9 vs. Minnesota and at Philadelphia, and March 16 vs. the Phillies and at Detroit. The second annual Spring Breakout game, featuring top minor league prospects from each organization, will take place in Sarasota when the O’s host the Yankees on March 15.

The 2025 season will mark Baltimore’s 16th Spring Training season in Sarasota and the club’s 15th season at the renovated Ed Smith Stadium.

In the 15 years since the Orioles moved Major League Spring Training operations to Sarasota, more than 1.4 million fans have enjoyed Orioles baseball at Ed Smith Stadium. In addition, the Orioles host a myriad of special events throughout the year – including youth sports tournaments, arts and entertainment programs, and charitable activations – helping to generate more than $686 million in economic impact in the state of Florida since 2015. Beyond economic impact, the Orioles have provided more than $3.9 million to local Sarasota organizations through cash donations and in-kind contributions.

And as the years grow it seems to be a welcome move for all concerned: Sarasota, the team and fans from both Sarasota and the north east who make their annual pilgrimage to the sun coast for the O's spring training season each year.

And as history shows, Sarasota and spring training go together like "hand in glove!"

Fans are invited to watch the team’s workouts on the back fields at the complex each day. 

There is no charge to attend and free parking is available. 

The club will work out from approximately 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. each day, leading up to the first home game.

Workouts at Ed Smith Stadium are free and open to the public up to the date that exhibition games begin.

Ballpark gates open at 9:00 a.m. each day at the Ed Smith Stadium/City of Sarasota Sports Complex.

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 Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Fan Events

The 2025 Spring Training promotional schedule features giveaways and experiences for fans of all ages. Again this year, the Orioles will invite children and seniors to run the bases after select home games. Kids Run the Bases, presented by The Out-of-Door Academy, is open to all fans ages four to 14 following every Sunday home game, while Seniors Stroll the Bases, presented by Sunways Senior Living Concierge, will return following Monday and Wednesday home games for fans ages 60 and older.

The promotional schedule is also highlighted by special event days and giveaways. Fans can enjoy Heroes Day (February 25) presented by Cheney Brothers, Family Weekend (March 8-9), Youth Sports Day (March 9) presented by First Watch, and Fireworks Night (March 21). They can also receive various giveaways throughout the spring season, including a Magnet Schedule (February 22) presented by Tommy’s Express Car Wash, a Plush Cow (March 1) presented by Chick-fil-A, an Orioles Rally Towel (March 8), and a Spring Training Gunnar Henderson T-shirt (March 14).

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Orioles Find New Spring Training Home
in Sarasota in 2010

Short History: The O's had been on a year-to-year retainer with Ft. Lauderdale since 2004 and talks between the Orioles and Sarasota officials were on & off several times over the course of 2008-09.

But the two concerns finally came together after it looked like all hope had dissolved in the negotiations...or as an avid fan would put it: "it's two outs, bases loaded, tied score, full count in the bottom of the 9th." Both sides came out winners.

Some longtime Orioles fans may remember, however, that this is not the first time the O’s have held their spring training rites in Sarasota.

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Baltimore Orioles Spring Training in Sarasota Florida

The O's spring training entourage called Ed Smith Stadium home for a whopping big 3 games in 1991 when they shared the stadium with the White Sox.

They also shared McKechnie Field with the Pirates that spring training season and earlier, in 1989, the O’s began training at what is now Twin Oaks Park, east of I-75 off Clark road, back when it was the Kansas City Royals Academy.

Baseball Spring Training: Years of Travel for the Orioles...

For some reason it seemed like the O’s could not find a permanent home and were the vagabonds of the Grapefruit League.

The Baltimore Spring Training Camp has bounced around the state of Florida: in ’89 at Miami’s Biscayne College, in ’91 they took up spring residence at Sarasota’s Twin Lakes Park again while hoping for a permanent home in Naples, which fell through.

The O’s spent spring training’s last week and a half in 1991 at Pompano Beach before moving to Port Charlotte, Florida.

Spring training camp locations for the O’s also included: Al Lang Stadium in St. Pete and of course since 1996, Ft. Lauderdale.

Baseball Spring Training History is Made Again in Sarasota

The O’s and Sarasota have “flirted” with each other through the years. And now, the O’s have found a permanent home, at last, in Sarasota.

Not such a bad deal. The O’s get a new, permanent home with upgrades and Sarasota gets to remain a traditional home to baseball spring training, as it has been since the early 20th Century.

Sarasota welcomes the 2013 Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Camp to town.

Go O's!

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Dates and times are deemed to be correct, however they were provided by the Orioles and are subject to change without notice.

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