2025 Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Schedule & Spring Training Tickets
Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Schedule 2025
Pittsburgh Pirates Reporting Dates 2025
Pitchers & Catchers First Work Out
February 12, 2025
Full Squad First Work Out
February 17, 2025
2025 Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Fan Events:
February 15, 2025: It's the Pittsburgh Pirates Block Party. Come show off how much you love Spring Training and the Pittsburgh Pirates! This event has vendors, player autographs and plenty of fun for the whole family. Come to Old Main Street between 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. and keep the fun going! Downtown Bradenton, FL.
Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Tickets and the schedule of exhibition games are below.
The Pirates working out at Pirate City.Below Are Game tickets we were able to source.
The Pittsburgh Pirates spring workouts take place at Pirate City and start around 9 a.m. and are free and open to the public.
Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Historical Milestone
On February 13, 2018 Manatee County honored the milestone 50th anniversary of Pirates Spring Training in Manatee County. A proclamation was issued at the Board of County Commissioners Meeting recognizing the partnership between the Pirates and the local communities.
Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Schedule
Here's the Pittsburgh Pirates spring training schedule for the 2025 Grapefruit League season.
The Pittsburgh Pirates' 2025 Grapefruit League season schedule includes a total of 31 games, 15 of which will be at played at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Florida.
Opening Day of the Pirates Grapefruit League season will be on Saturday, February 22, as the team travels to Sarasota to face the Baltimore Orioles . The Pirates will return to Bradenton for their Home Opener on February 23 against the
Minnesota Twins.
Additional highlights of the 2025 Spring Training schedule include:
• March 4: The Pirates will host the Boston Red Sox for the only time.
• March 7: The Pirates will host the Philadelphia Phillies for the first of two times (also March 18).
• March 11: The Pirates will host the New York Yankees for the only time.
• March 17: The Pirates will host the Minnesota Twins on St. Patrick’s Day and travel to Lakeland to take on the
Tigers in split squad action.
• March 22: The Pirates will play their final home game of the spring against the Baltimore Orioles .
• March 24: The spring training campaign concludes with a road game against the Minnesota Twins
.
In addition to the 31 -game spring training schedule, the Spring Breakout Game will take place in Port Charlotte against the Tampa Bay Rays on March 14.
MLB tickets to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play their spring training games at McKechnie Field, now LECOM Park, have been available for decades.
Before the Pirates made Bradenton their spring training Mecca in 1969, they called many other locations their spring home; Havana, Cuba, and Hollywood, California being among them.
Make your plans to come out and see this year's crop of new prospects along with returning Pittsburgh Pirates as well as veterans.
There's nothing like watching spring training exhibition games while being able to work on your tan. Ah, Florida Spring Training!!
2025 Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Schedule
& Spring Training Tickets
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Date
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Vs.
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Place
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Time
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Buy Tix
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| Feb 22, 2025 | Pirates |
Sarasota |
1:05pm |
 |
| Feb 23, 2025 | Twins |
Bradenton | 1:05pm |
|
| Feb 24, 2025 | Phillies |
Clearwater | 1:05pm |
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| Feb 25, 2025 | Braves | Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Feb 26, 2025 | Braves | Venice |
1:05pm |
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| Feb 26, 2025 | Orioles |
Bradenton | 1:05pm |
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| Feb 27,, 2025 | Twins | Ft. Myers |
1:05pm |
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| Feb 28, 2025 | Rays |
Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 1, 2025 | Orioles |
Sarasota | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 2, 2025 | Tigers | Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 3, 2025 | Yankees |
Tampa | 6:35pm |
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| Mar 4, 2025 | Red Sox |
Bradenton | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 5, 2025 | Blue Jays |
Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 6, 2025 | Orioles | Sarasota |
6:05pm |
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| Mar 7, 2025 | Phillies |
Bradenton | 1:05pm |
|
| Mar 8, 2025 | Braves |
Venice |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 9, 2025 | Tigers |
Lakeland |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 10, 2025 | Orioles |
Bradenton |
6:05pm |
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| Mar 11, 2025 | Yankees |
Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 13, 2025 | Twins | Ft. Myers |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 14, 2025 | Phillies | Clearwater | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 14, 2025 | Tigers | Bradenton | 6:05pm |
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| Mar 15, 2025 | Orioles | Bradenton | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 17, 2025 | Twins |
Bradenton |
1:05pm |
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| Mar 17, 2025 | Tigers | Lakeland | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 18, 2025 | Phillies | Bradenton | 1:05pm |
|
| Mar 19, 2025 | Rays | Pt Charlotte |
1:05pm |
|
| Mar 21, 2024 | Red Sox |
Ft. Myers |
TBD |
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| Mar 22, 2025 | Orioles |
Bradenton | 1:05pm |
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| Mar 23, 2025 | Blue Jays |
Dunedin | 1:07pm |
|
| Mar 24, 2025 | Twins | Ft. Myers |
1:05pm |
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Directions: To get to Pirate City From South (Sarasota): Travel North on US 301. Cross S.R. 70 and make a right onto 38th Ave. East. Make first left onto 27th St. E. and Pirate City is a mile up the road.
From Interstate 75: Exit I-75 at S.R. 64 West (exit 220 if traveling south, exit 220B if traveling north). Proceed west towards Bradenton and make a left on 27th Street East. Pirate City is approx. a mile on the left.
Pirate City - 1701 27th St E - Bradenton, FL 34208. Parking has been free.
To get to McKechnie Field, now known as LECOM Park, From South (Sarasota): Take Route 41 North to Cortez Road, go straight onto Business 41 and turn right onto 17th Ave. West. Ballpark is located at intersection of 17th Avenue West and 9th Street West.
From Interstate 75: Exit I-75 at S.R. 64 West (exit 220 if traveling south, exit 220B if traveling north). Go west on Route 64 to 9th Street West and turn left to the ballpark.
McKechnie Field/LECOM Park - 1611 9th Street W., Bradenton, Florida. Located
1/2 mile West of Highway 41 on 9th Street West at 17th Ave. West.
Game times are PM and local. All information in the Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Schedule is deemed to be correct, however it was provided by the Pirate's office and is subject to change, without notice, due to error and/or changes according to the Pirates.
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