The team needed to find an alternate home ballpark after Tropicana Field sustained major damage from Hurricane Milton.

The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 2025 home games at Steinbrenner Field, the team announced Thursday. Steinbrenner Field is the spring training home of the New York Yankees, as well as the host of the Yankees' A-ball affiliate Tampa Tarpons.

While much of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area avoided the worst of Hurricane Milton. The same couldn’t be said for Tropicana Field, and the Rays were forced to look for a new home in 2025 as a result. That decision has been made, and it comes courtesy of an AL East rival.