CoolToday Park



The entry plaza of CoolToday Park, Aug-2019.

Most of the seating bowl, as seen from the service entrance in the outfield.

Gulf Coast League game action.

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Quick Facts:
After more than two decades playing second fiddle to property ownership at Walt Disney World in Osceola County, the Atlanta Braves, who also recently built a regular-season park for themselves in the northwest suburbs of the city, acquired land in the West Villages section of North Port for their own complex. CoolToday Park, sponsored by a regional HVAC contractor, opened for one spring training game in March 2019 and became the full-time spring home of the Atlanta Braves in 2020.

In the meantime, select Gulf Coast League games were hosted at the site in 2019. The Florida State League’s Florida Fire Frogs, a Braves farm team, left another Osceola County site to join the Braves here for 2020, but whether they would stay for 2021 and beyond appeared to be dependent on negotiation with the Charlotte Stone Crabs, into whose territory the club was moving. The Fire Frogs were not owned by the Braves (at least as of January 2020) and further play in North Port would require an indemnity payment to the Stone Crabs. As it happened, both the Fire Frogs and Stone Crabs were eliminated from the Florida State League when Major League Baseball restructured the minors for 2021. With the COVID-19 pandemic wiping out the 2020 season, the Fire Frogs never did take the field at CoolToday Park. That, in turn, prompted the Braves to start holding the majority of their complex league games on the main field, the same as the Orioles do up the road in Sarasota.

The North Port stadium is open every day, even during the off-season, and features a tiki bar and restaurant on the concourse in left field. As is typical at spring training facilities, the stadium has touches that remind fans that they are at the spring home of the Braves, including an outfield seating pavilion with the same naming sponsor as their regular-season home in Georgia. Effective in 2022, the tiki bar is closed on Mondays, but a grab-and-go concession stand is open during complex league games.


Game Date League Level Result
1879 Wed 21-Aug-2019 Gulf Coast R GCL BRAVES 5, GCL Red Sox 2, 1st
1880 Wed 21-Aug-2019 Gulf Coast R GCL Red Sox 2, GCL BRAVES 0, 2d
2032 Tue 17-Aug-2021 Florida Complex R FCL BRAVES 5, FCL Orioles Orange 0
2041 Mon 23-Aug-2021 Florida Complex R FCL Red Sox 11, FCL BRAVES 1, 1st
2042 Mon 23-Aug-2021 Florida Complex R FCL Red Sox 4, FCL BRAVES 0, 2d
2215 Sat 13-Aug-2022 Florida Complex R FCL BRAVES 7, FCL Rays 6, 7 inn
2223 Mon 22-Aug-2022 Florida Complex R FCL BRAVES 3, FCL Pirates 1
2362 Sat 8-Jul-2023 Florida Complex R FCL Rays 6, FCL BRAVES 2
2511 Mon 3-Jun-2024 Florida Complex R FCL Orioles 1, FCL BRAVES 0, 7 inn
2534 Sat 22-Jun-2024 Florida Complex R FCL Rays 7, FCL BRAVES 6
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