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After Being Displaced By Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees Affiliate Announces Home For 2025

The Tampa Tarpons, the Low-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, will play at a field adjacent to their actual complex in 2025.

Brady Farkas

Rachel Balkovec is the first woman ever to manage a men's minor league team for the Tampa Tarpons. Tampa Tarpons won 4-1 over the Bradenton Marauders at Bradenton's LECOM Park on June 29, 2022.
Rachel Balkovec is the first woman ever to manage a men's minor league team for the Tampa Tarpons. Tampa Tarpons won 4-1 over the Bradenton Marauders at Bradenton's LECOM Park on June 29, 2022. / THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK
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The Tampa Bay Rays will spend the 2025 season playing at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. This is because Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg is unplayable because of the damage sustained during Hurricane Milton in October.

We recently wrote about the upgrades that Steinbrenner Field is undergoing as a result of the Rays moving in for the season. The problem? The Single-A Tampa Tarpons won't get to use all the new amenities, because they are being displaced to a field adjacent to the Steinbrenner complex.

The Tarpons, the Low-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, usually play their home games at Steinbrenner Field.

Per the team on social media:

Important Update For the 2025 Season:
We’ll be playing on the Community Field at GMS Field (side field next to the tennis courts) as we support the Tampa Bay Rays using our home stadium in 2025!

The new field holds seats about 1,000 people, less than 10% of what Steinbrenner Field holds. The hope is that the Rays can return to Tropicana Field in 2026, but that's to be determined at this point.

From a press release:

"We’re looking forward to embracing this unique opportunity,” said Jeremy Ventura, General Manager of the Tampa Tarpons. “While this is a change, we’re committed to making this season special and working on a promotional schedule that will help bring the Tampa community together."

While it's not made specifically clear, it's likely that the Tarpons will get to experience some of the new features while the Rays are on the road.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is the senior writer for “Minor League Baseball on SI’’ and the host of “The Payoff Pitch’’ podcast, which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. Follow Brady on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.

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