spring training
noun
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: the time in the spring when baseball teams prepare for the regular season by playing practice games
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Mitchell was a Royals spring training invite and spent the year in High-A Quad Cities.
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
The Cubs, though, have not made a nine-figure commitment to a pitcher since signing Yu Darvish around the start of spring training in 2018 — and the club dumped that contract halfway through a six-year, $126 million deal, in the middle of a pandemic.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
But the then-29-year-old Giolito got no further than his spring training debut for the Red Sox.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Born from a moment in the batting cage The idea behind Core Impact goes back more than 30 years to a spring training session in 1994.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
The Cubs, though, have not made a nine-figure commitment to a pitcher since signing Yu Darvish around the start of spring training in 2018 — and the club dumped that contract halfway through a six-year, $126 million deal, in the middle of a pandemic.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
But the then-29-year-old Giolito got no further than his spring training debut for the Red Sox.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Born from a moment in the batting cage The idea behind Core Impact goes back more than 30 years to a spring training session in 1994.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Spring training.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spring%20training. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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