The U.S., which was considered the best spring camp in professional baseball, is being shunned by KBO league clubs.토토사이트

According to the 2025 spring camp schedule of 10 professional baseball teams collected by Yonhap News on the 27th, no team in the U.S. alone finishes spring camp.

The 10 clubs set up their first spring camps in the warm U.S., Australia and Taiwan before gathering in Asia ahead of the exhibition games in March next year.

The KIA Tigers, LG Twins, Doosan Bears, kt wiz, SSG Landers, Lotte Giants, and Hanwha Eagles will hold the second spring camp in Japan, while the NC Dinos and Kiwoom Heroes will hold the second spring camp in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The Samsung Lions will hold winter training only in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

The U.S. was the best training site for KBO League clubs to catch first place.

There are various advantages, such as excellent facilities, warm weather, and opportunities to play practice games with high-quality teams.

However, the situation has completely changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

KBO League clubs trained only in Korea after the spread of COVID-19 and left the country for winter training again in January 2023, three years later.

The U.S. didn't do just before the pandemic. Costs have increased a lot and the impact of climate change has been huge.

In particular, the weather in Arizona, "the epitome of spring camp," was not good.

KT, NC, KIA, and the World Baseball Classic (WBC) South Korean national baseball team, which settled in Tucson, Arizona, in the spring of 2023, suffered a setback in training due to weather problems.

Rain and wind poured into Tucson every day, and the temperature dropped sharply, causing snow to fall.

Many teams who struggled turned their eyes to other regions, including Japan, Australia, and Taiwan.

Eight teams chose the U.S. as the first training site in 2023, and five teams chose the second training site.

However, this year, the number of teams with the first training in the U.S. decreased to five and the number of teams with the second training decreased to two.

Five teams will train in the U.S. next year, but no team will remain in the U.S. until the second round.

LG and NC, which held their second training camp in the U.S. this year, chose Okinawa and Kaohsiung, respectively.

Rumors have it that environmental issues such as weather have affected the camp. This is why the first and second training camps are set up in different regions because players feel bored if they stay in one place for too long.

The cost problem caused by the recent decline in the yen's value also encouraged the withdrawal of the U.S.

KIA, which had its first training session in Sydney, Australia last year, will have its first training session in the U.S. again.

However, he chose Irvine, California, as his campsite, not Arizona.

KIA will train in condition at Irvine and then move to Okinawa at the end of February next year for practical training focusing on practice games.

KT, which was the only team among the 10 clubs to hold the first camp in Gijang, Busan this year, also changed its training site.

After the first camp in Geelong, Australia, he will move north to Okinawa.

SSG, which held its second camp in Jai, Taiwan, this year, moved to Okinawa.

The Lotte Giants, who trained in Guam and Okinawa, also set camp sites for next year in Taiwan, Tainan, and Japan.

The second camp site is agonizing over Okinawa and Miyazaki.

The team of 10 professional teams will wrap up their spring camp on March 6 and return home to play in exhibition games.