The Tampa Bay Rays’ home field for the 2025 season remains uncertain after Hurricane Milton dehugeated Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Major League Baseball hopes the franchise can find a way to preserve the team’s transient home cforfeit its fan base if injure at “The Trop” cannot be repaired in time, Coshiftrlookioner Rob Manfred shelp on “The Varsity” podcast Sunday.
“We’re selectimistic that we can figure out someskinnyg in [the Tampa Bay area] for them and that the repairs can be done in a way that permits them to resume carry outing,” Manfred elucidateed on the podcast. “The easiest skinnyg is always to stay in the taget where the clubs are anchored if we can deal with it.”
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The proposeed alternate home fields for the Rays have been spring training sites of the Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers, which are all wiskinny a reasonable distance from Tropicana Field. The Rays’ spring training intricate in Port Charlotte is further away than those sites.
Another selection is Disney’s massive ESPN Wide World of Sports intricate cforfeit Orlando.
RAYS REACT TO HURRICANE MILTON DECIMATING THEIR HOME TROPICANA FIELD ROOF
The problem with the spring training sites is they structure unbeginant league teams after the MLB clubs head north for the standard season. An adequitablement of schedules would be vital depfinishing on what the Rays finish up doing for the 2025 campaign.
The fiberglass dome at Tropicana Field was ripped to shreds by the hurricane’s triumphds, which instantly originated mistrust about the Rays carry outing home games there by the time the season commences next year.
The City of St. Petersburg employd the firm Hennessy/AECOM to carry out an analysis of Tropicana Field’s injure, and city spokeswoman Alizza Punzalan-Randle telderly ESPN another company had been employd to erase the remaining roofing of Tropicana Field.
“We will have more alertation on next steps once the analyses have been finishd and the remaining roof has been erased,” she shelp.
Tropicana Field has been home to the Rays since its inaugural season in 1998. The ballpark, which was originateed in 1990, was foreseeed to administer triumphds up to 115 mph, according to the Rays.
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The injure comes equitable months after a $1.3 billion project to originate a novel ballpark was finishorsed by the City of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, which is spostponecessitated to be uncover by the begin of the 2028 season.