2026 Atlanta Braves Spring Training Reporting Dates TBA
Pitchers & Catchers First Work Out
Full Squad First Work Out
The Atlanta Braves' 2026 spring season will mark Atlanta’s seventh at CoolToday Park in North Port, Fla., and will feature 16 home games at the facility. Atlanta’s 31-game exhibition slate will begin Saturday, February 21, with a road game against the Tampa Bay Rays. The club will play its first spring home game the following day versus the Minnesota Twins.
Atlanta will welcome nine different major league teams to CoolToday Park, including multiple games against the Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Tampa Bay Rays. The club will also host an exhibition contest against Team Colombia on Wednesday, March 4, as it trains for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
On March 21, Atlanta’s top prospects will travel to play the New York Yankees’ prospects at George M. Steinbrenner Field as part of the third rendition of MLB’s Spring Breakout.
Atlanta will conclude its spring slate on Tuesday, March 24, versus the Tampa Bay Rays. The club will then return to Truist Park to host the Kansas City Royals for Opening Day later that week.
Fans are invited to watch the team’s workouts on the practice fields at the complex each day.
Workouts at Cool Today Park are free and open to the public up to the date that exhibition games begin and free parking is available. .
Atlanta Braves 2026 Spring Training Fan Events TBA
The most recent major league baseball team to make the suncoast its spring training home is the Atlanta Braves with its new 30 year lease. The Brave's move to the suncoast comes after 22 - 23 years at Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida.
Their first full spring training season took place in 2020 at the new CoolToday Park, a 6,200 seat ballpark that can accommodate up to 8,000. The new park did, however, play host to the Tampa Bay Rays on March 24, 2019, the Brave's first and only spring training game there at the end of the 2019 season.The Braves beat the Rays 4 - 2 in that game, just for the record!
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Based in Atlanta since 1966, the Braves are the longest continuously operating franchise in Major League Baseball. Since 1991, Braves teams have earned two National League wild cards, 21 division championships, six National League pennants, and two World Series titles.
The Braves, who have spent over 72 consecutive years playing in Florida,
will be training in their $140 million ballpark, owned by Sarasota
County, which comes complete not only with plenty of seating but also a
left-field Tomahawk Tiki Bar for food and libations.
How did the
new Atlanta Braves spring training site become known as CoolToday Park?
Well, in December, 2018, the city of North Port announced a 20-year
stadium naming-rights deal with CoolToday, a local air conditioning,
heating, plumbing and electrical services company. As of this writing
I’ve not been able to uncover how much CoolToday paid for the 20 year
deal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed when the deal was signed.
The
90 acre site also sports 7 fields, including practice fields and
multi-use fields that can feature other events outside of spring
training season, so it's more than just a spring training baseball
complex.
In the off season the JumboTron plays host to popular
movies for fans. And CoolToday Park also hosts holiday festivals such as
Jingle Jam, which they are wanting to turn into an annual event, and
its own Farmer's Market from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays from October
through March, so you might say it's much more than just a ballpark!
For
the baseball fan it seems like designers thought of everything from
drink rails so you can stop and watch the game from almost any vantage
point and set down your drink, 1,800 berm seats to a right field patio
and a left fiel lounge for group seating and a specialty menu.
The
latest trends in ballparks: The CoolToday Park features a number of
familiar facets of other Grapefruit League facilities such as the
clubhouse behind the right field fence, which is reminiscent of
Charlotte Sports Park. An outfield grandstand is similar to Bradenton’s
LECOM Park, home of he Pittsburgh Pirates for spring training. The
ballpark also has a left-field tiki bar, as does the Phillies’ Spectrum
Field in Clearwater, Florida. The outfield dimensions of CoolToday Park
are very close to those of SunTrust Park, the Braves’ back in the
Atlanta.
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It may be confusing because both North Port and Venice, Florida are named as the Atlanta Braves spring training home but the official address of CoolToday Park is 18800 South, W Villages Pkwy, Venice, FL
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