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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Originally drafted by the Padres and traded away to the Rays in the Blake Snell trade, Hunt signed a minor league deal with the Padres in December only to lose most of spring training to an oblique injury.
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
Bericoto, the Barney Nugent Award winner during spring training, plans to give the ball to his mom, Francis.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
Seiya Suzuki reported to spring training feeling motivated.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
The Dodgers, for example, have machines at Dodger Stadium and at the spring training complex in Arizona, but not at their minor-league affiliates.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
Bericoto, the Barney Nugent Award winner during spring training, plans to give the ball to his mom, Francis.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
Seiya Suzuki reported to spring training feeling motivated.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
The Dodgers, for example, have machines at Dodger Stadium and at the spring training complex in Arizona, but not at their minor-league affiliates.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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“Spring training.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spring%20training. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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