The honest headline

No Major League club trains in Orlando. The Atlanta Braves held spring training at ESPN Wide World of Sports from 1998 to 2019 and left; the Rays camped there for a single year in 2023. What Orlando baseball fans actually do is day-trip — and this page maps the trips the way local fans make them, with every film's real location stated.

Stadium Tour & Game Highlights | Yankees Spring Training

Dro On The Go

Dro On The Go tours George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa — the Yankees' spring home (built 1996 as Legends Field) — and takes in a Yankees–Tigers spring training game (March 14, 2026): the stadium, the food, the merch and the game. Tampa is the closest big spring-training day trip from Orlando.

Key takeaways
  • Yankees spring training, Tampa
  • Steinbrenner Field tour
  • Day trip from Orlando (~1 hr)

New York Mets vs. Nationals | Ballpark Tour & Game Highlights | Spring Training at Clover Park

Dro On The Go

Dro On The Go drives from Orlando to Clover Park in Port St. Lucie for Mets vs. Nationals spring training — a ballpark tour and game highlights from a lifelong Mets fan seeing his team in its Florida home for the first time.

Key takeaways
  • Mets spring training, Port St. Lucie
  • Clover Park tour and game
  • An Orlando-based fan's road trip

The Short Porch Goes To New York Yankees Spring Training

The Short Porch

The Short Porch takes its show to Yankees spring training at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa — fan-level camp atmosphere, workouts and ballpark feel from the largest spring stadium in the Grapefruit League. (2020 episode; Tampa is about 90 minutes from Orlando.)

Key takeaways
  • Yankees camp, Tampa
  • Steinbrenner Field atmosphere
  • About 90 minutes from Orlando

The day trips

  • Yankees — Steinbrenner Field, Tampa (~1 hr): a stadium tour and Yankees–Tigers game (March 14, 2026) covering the food, merch and the largest spring stadium in the Grapefruit League; a fan-show visit adds the camp atmosphere (2020 episode)
  • Mets — Clover Park, Port St. Lucie: a ballpark tour and Mets–Nationals game, filmed by a lifelong Mets fan seeing his team in its Florida home for the first time
  • The two camps compared: a Flippin' Bats episode recorded at the Yankees' complex with a Mets reporter — how camp differs between Tampa and Port St. Lucie (February 2023; its storylines are that season's, the comparison still maps the trips)

The history

A narrated history traces Yankees spring venues back to 1903 — from the Highlanders' early southern camps to the 1996 move to Tampa. And the home-base film is pure watch content: a drone's aerial tour of the 260-acre ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Disney, whose ballpark hosted all those Braves springs — the closest thing to spring training Orlando still has is the field itself.

Sources: the six videos on this page — Yankees and Mets day-trip films, a two-camp comparison, a Yankees spring history, and an aerial tour of the Wide World of Sports — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

Watch: Orlando Spring Training and Baseball, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

A history of Yankees spring training venues going back to 1903

Pinstripes Nation

A narrated history of where the Yankees have trained in spring since 1903 — from the Highlanders' early southern camps to the 1996 move to Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the camp Orlando-area fans road-trip to today.

Key takeaways
  • Yankees spring homes since 1903
  • How Tampa became the camp
  • Grapefruit League history

New York Yankees and Mets Spring Training updates with Deesha Thosar | Flippin' Bats

Flippin' Bats with Ben Verlander

Recorded on site at the Yankees' Tampa complex, Ben Verlander's Flippin' Bats talks spring storylines with Mets reporter Deesha Thosar — how camp differs between the Yankees in Tampa and the Mets in Port St. Lucie. (February 2023 episode; the storylines are that season's, but the two-camp comparison still maps the day trips.)

Key takeaways
  • Yankees camp (Tampa) vs Mets camp (Port St. Lucie)
  • Recorded at the Yankees complex
  • 2023 episode — dated storylines

Taking an Aerial Tour around ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World

Chip and Company

An aerial tour of ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World — the 260-acre complex whose ballpark hosted Atlanta Braves spring training from 1998 to 2019 and the Tampa Bay Rays' camp in 2023. (Watch content: drone footage with no narration track.)

Key takeaways
  • ESPN Wide World of Sports, Disney
  • Former Braves spring home (1998–2019)
  • Aerial tour

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