In addition to teams needing to set a 60-man player pool, Major League Baseball also instructed them to find an alternate training site that can be utilized both during Spring Training 2.0 and the 2020 season.
Part of the mandate reportedly included that the training site would need to be within 100 miles of a team’s home ballpark. For the Los Angeles Dodgers the natural choice appeared to be their High-A Rancho Cucamonga facility.
And while they will eventually end up there, the Dodgers first will be more local. President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman confirmed a report that indicated the Dodgers planned to stage their alternate training site at USC, where they could use Dedeaux Field.