BayCare Ballpark

• Name: BayCare Ballpark
• GPS-able Address: 601 North Old Coachman Road, Clearwater, FL 33765
• Ballpark Owner: City of Clearwater
• Architects: HOK Sport (now Populous)
• Groundbreaking: 10/16/2002
• Minor League Baseball Teams: Clearwater Threshers (A) 2021-present; Clearwater Threshers (A+) 2004-2020
• Class/League History: A/Florida State League 2022-present; A/Low-A Southeast 2021; A+/Florida State League 2004-2020
• First Professional Baseball Game: 2/27/2004; stadium spring debut of Phillies
• Others Playing or Operating Here: Philadelphia Phillies (spring training)
• Previous Ballpark Names: Spectrum Field 2017-2020; Bright House Field 2013-2016; Bright House Networks Field 2004-2012
• LF: 329 CF: 408 RF: 330
• Seats: 8,500
• Stated Capacity: 8,500
• House Baseball/Softball Record Attendance (as currently configured): 11,340, 3/17/2019 (courtesy of Nick Gandy, Florida Sports Foundation)

BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, FL, is the home of the Clearwater Threshers, the Philadelphia Phillies' Single-A Florida State League farm team, and Phillies spring training games. BayCare Health Systems bought naming rights in 2021.

Opened as Bright House Networks Field in 2004, it wore the Philadelphia-esque name Spectrum Field from 2017 through 2020 (The Spectrum was the 1967-1994 home of the 76ers and Flyers) after Charter Communications bought Bright House Networks and put it under its Spectrum brand.

May 13, 2015, saw a no-hitter and a triple play in the same game - but, unfortunately for the home crowd, both were accomplished by the visiting Charlotte Stone Crabs. That double feat has never been done in MLB but has happened at least twice in the minors.

The 2017 Threshers were only the second FSL team ever to draw 200,000. House single-game records: Threshers, 10,055; Phils, 11,340. Both figures are surprising; five-figure crowds at FSL games are rare, and while one would expect the Yankees to have the highest standing spring record among current teams in current stadiums the Phillies' 11,340 beats their 11,159.

Clearwater, Pinellas County, and Florida jointly funded the HOK Sport (now Populous) ballpark. It is in the protected territory of, but pre-dates, the Tampa Bay Rays.