Houston Astros Set 2027 Spring Training Slate as MLB Labor Dispute Looms

If spring training begins on schedule next year—an uncertain prospect given baseball’s anticipated labor conflict this offseason—the Houston Astros will kick off Grapefruit League play on Feb. 19 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Major League Baseball unveiled a complete 2027 spring training slate Friday, with all clubs set to open preseason games on Feb. 19. The Astros are scheduled to face the Nationals at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches, the shared facility used by both teams.

Houston will host 15 spring games, including two split-squad dates on Feb. 20 and Feb. 27. In addition to regular opponents—the Nationals, Cardinals, Marlins, and Mets—the Tigers (March 2) and Yankees (March 6) are also booked at CACTI Park.

The Astros are slated to play two exhibition contests March 22 and 23 against Triple-A Sugar Land at Daikin Park, preceding their March 25 regular-season home opener against the Rangers.

All plans remain vulnerable to disruption if labor tensions delay or cancel spring training or the regular season. The current collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the MLB Players Association expires Dec. 1, and a lockout is widely anticipated.

In 2022, a lockout resolved in early March forced MLB to push Opening Day from March 31 to April 7, with spring training games beginning March 17.

ASTROS’ 2027 SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE

Feb. 19: vs. Nationals
Feb. 20: vs. Marlins; at Cardinals
Feb. 21: at Nationals
Feb. 22: vs. Mets
Feb. 23: at Tigers
Feb. 25: vs. Mets
Feb. 26: at Cardinals
Feb. 27: vs. Nationals; at Marlins
Feb. 28: at Mets
March 1: at Nationals
March 2: vs. Tigers
March 4: vs. Nationals
March 5: at Marlins
March 6: vs. Yankees
March 7: vs. Cardinals
March 8: at Nationals
March 9: at Mets
March 11: at Marlins
March 12: vs. Mets
March 13: vs. Marlins
March 14: at Yankees
March 15: vs. Cardinals
March 16: vs. Mets
March 17: at Cardinals
March 18: vs. Marlins
March 19: at Nationals
March 20: at Mets
March 21: vs. Cardinals

Note: Times TBA; schedule subject to change

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