Associated Press
Two Major League Baseball teams that had flirted with moving their spring training operations to Arizona are staying in Florida.
Gov. Rick Scott said in a statement Wednesday that the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros will remain in Florida for the next 30 years.
The statement didn’t explicitly say the teams are moving to West Palm Beach, but officials there have been making plans to build a baseball stadium.
Astros owner Jim Crane thanked Palm Beach County and West Palm Beach officials for making the deal possible in the statement.
The Nationals currently train in Viera, along Florida’s Space Coast, and the Astros train in Kissimmee, south of Orlando.
The leases for both teams expire next year.
Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
