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The Tampa Bay Rays will play their entire 2025 home schedule at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, due to the damage sustained by Tropicana Field after Hurricane Milton in October. Steinbrenner ...
The destructive winds damaged the roof of St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field, the home stadium of MLB's Tampa Bay Rays. Officials had transformed the baseball stadium into a base camp for emergency ...
A combination of severe hurricane damage to Tropicana Field and political delays on financing means it is highly unlikely the Tampa Bay Rays' planned new stadium will be ready for the 2028 season ...
Tropicana Field (nicknamed "The Trop") is a domed multipurpose stadium located in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States."The Trop" has been the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB) since the team's inaugural season in 1998.
Tropicana Field sits in St. Petersburg, Florida, across the bay from Tampa. It opened in 1990 and can hold more than 42,700 fans. The ballpark is the only one in the league with a fixed roof.
The tumultuous series of events came after Hurricane Milton ripped the roof off Tropicana Field on Oct. 9, forcing the Rays to play the 2025 season at the spring training home of the New York Yankees, 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Then, the Pinellas County Commission postponed a planned Oct. 29 vote on the bond issue that the Rays ...
The linchpin of the project is the planned roofed stadium, scheduled to open for the 2028 season. It caps years of uncertainty about the Rays’ future, including possible moves across the bay to Tampa, or to Nashville, Tennessee, or even to split home games between St. Petersburg and Montreal, an idea Major League Baseball rejected.
The arena, which opened in 1990 as the Florida Suncoast Dome, is also the homefield for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. In the days leading up to Milton’s landfall, the facility was set up as ...