BOSTON -- Springfield’s first turn at hosting one of the biggest baseball-related events of the winter will take place from Jan. 17 to 19, 2020.

The fifth annual “Red Sox Winter Weekend” event, which was held at Foxwoods for the first four years before the team reached a multi-year partnership with MGM in February, will be held at MGM Springfield on the third weekend of January. The fan festival will take place less than a month before the team reports to spring training in Fort Myers, Florida.

The Winter Weekend event is the club’s premier offseason event and includes meet-and-greets with coaches and players, baseball clinics and a Red Sox Town Hall event. Reigning A.L. MVP Mookie Betts headlined a group of 20 players at this year’s event in January along with Chris Sale, Rick Porcello, Andrew Benintendi and Xander Bogaerts.

The Red Sox introduced Winter Weekend in 2015 in an effort to drum up interest ahead of the team’s departure for spring training. Historically, it has started with a Town Hall event Friday night and autograph sessions, clinics and panel discussions highlighting the Saturday festivities. The weekend wraps up with a mascot breakfast Sunday morning.

MGM became the “official and exclusive resort casino” of the Red Sox earlier this year in a partnership that guaranteed signage throughout Fenway Park, including in the middle of the iconic Green Monster in left field. That deal replaced a five-year contract with Foxwoods.