The Orioles’ Grapefruit League road schedule is typically filled with trips along Florida’s Gulf coast with an occasional trip to the state’s interior around the Orlando area. But the Orioles rarely make a trip to Florida’s Atlantic coast for a spring training game.
The Orioles used to call the Eastern side of the state home. They trained in Miami for four decades in the franchise’s early years and worked out in Fort Lauderdale for 14 years before moving to Sarasota in 2010.
Before this year, the last year the Orioles went across the state to play a Grapefruit League game was 2015, when they traveled to Jupiter to play the St.