As spring training baseball games begin in Lee County, Collier County baseball fans once again will be on the outside looking in on the action— but not for lack of trying. During the past 15 years, Collier County business leaders have attempted to bring some of the Grapefruit League’s spring training games closer to Naples. Dalliances in 2009 with the Chicago Cubs and in 2016 with the Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays, however, resulted in two of those three teams getting new, state-of-the-art complexes elsewhere: The Cubs stayed in Arizona, the Braves moved from Lake Buena Vista to North Port and the Blue Jays stayed in Dunedin.