Major League Baseball's spring training is happening early this year. Players started reporting to training camp in Arizona and Florida in mid-February to start workouts, and soon many of them will play in the World Baseball Classic.

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The Tigers enter the 2026 season after two strong seasons that have rejuvenated the passion for baseball in the Motor City. After making it to the MLB Playoffs for the first time

With the World Baseball Classic beginning on March 5, participating players will soon depart their clubs' camps to gather with national teams. The 2026 regular season begins on March 25 with the San Francisco Giants hosting the Yankees. Here's what to know for the opening days of spring training games:

Spencer Strider’s latest spring training outing showed rising velocity and swing-and-miss stuff, encouraging news for Braves fans.

Major League Baseball has recently started doing Spring Breakout before each season. These are games outside of Spring Training that allow each team to get a look at their top prospects, even if they didn't get an invite to the full camp.

Major League Baseball today announced plans to expand upon its highly successful Spring Breakout with the 2027 launch of the new Spring Breakout Tournament. The new single-elimination tournament in late March,

MLB spring training officially gets underway on Feb. 20 with five games.

Cubs manager Craig Counsell discussed his son taking his first MLB at-bat for the Diamondbacks in a Spring Training battle against his Cubs.

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