The Tampa Bay Rays will play at Steinbrenner Field, the Tampa-based spring training home of their division rival New York Yankees, for the 2025 season after Hurricane Milton tore the roof off Tropicana Field.

In a news release Thursday, the Rays announced they would be playing their regular season games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.

The Tampa Bay Rays will play next season in a New York Yankees-owned ballpark. The Tampa-based George M. Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the Yankees and their Low-A minor league affiliate, Tampa Tarpons, will serve as the Rays’ home field in 2025, the team announced on Thursday.

The Tampa Bay Rays will host 2025 regular-season games at George Steinbrenner Field -- the New York Yankees' spring training site -- because of damage Hurricane Milton caused to Tropicana Field, the team said Thursday.

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

In need of an interim home following hurricane damage to Tropicana Field, the team has a deal in place with its American League East rival.

The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 2025 season at the New York Yankees pre-season training facility in nearby Tampa, the Major League Baseball club announced on Thursday.The Yankees will continue to play pre-season contests at their Tampa facility in 2025 while the Rays train as usual in Port Charlotte,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 2025 home games at the New York Yankees’ nearby spring training ballpark amid uncertainty about the future of hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field, Rays executives told The Associated Press.

The repairs to Tropicana Field are projected at $55.7 million and would not be finished until after the 2025 season.

Hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field can be fixed for about $55M in time for the 2026 season, per St. Petersburg report.

Hurricane Milton barreled into the west coast of Florida last month and left a path of destruction in its wake. This included the roof of Tropicana Field where the Tampa Bay Rays have played all of its home games since the team's inaugural season in 1998.