a program of physical exercise, practice, and exhibition games followed by a baseball team in the late winter and early spring, before the start of the regular season
2.
the period during which such a program takes place, usually from late February until the end of March
Word origin
[1895–1900, Amer.]
Examples of 'spring training' in a sentence
spring training
When the players reported back for spring training the next year there was a different edge to their attitude.