MLB will produce, distribute local games for the Parents, Brewers and Twins in 2025

MLB will produce and distribute local games for the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins for the 2025 season. The new system will give fans more options to watch their favorite teams on television or stream digitally.

In addition, the Texas Rangers have determined they will no longer partner with Diamond Sports Group and are considering their local media options for the 2025 season.

Last season, the parents' RSN reach was about 1.45 million households and the twins reached about 1.08 million homes. With MLB's direct-to-consumer streaming option, Cleveland's games can now reach about 4.86 million households (+235%) and Minnesota's has expanded to about 4.40 million homes (+307%). Milwaukee had a direct-to-consumer streaming option available with its previous local media system and will continue to do so as MLB moves forward.

The arrangements with the parent, Brewers and Twins are similar to how MLB produced and distributed games for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres through the 2024 season. Last season, MLB negotiated cable and satellite distribution deals and made direct-to-consumer streaming options available on Dbacks.TV, Padres.TV, and Rockies.TV.

“As the media landscape continues to evolve, Major League Baseball is committed to serving our fans by ensuring they can watch the clubs they love, eliminate blackouts where we can, and ultimately increase the reach of our games,” said Noah Garden, MLB Deputy Commissioner of Business. and the media. “We are proud to bring the same high quality production that we have demonstrated in Arizona, Colorado and San Diego to the Parent, Brewers and Twins games to their passionate fan bases.”

Local games produced by MLB last year included special features typically associated with nationally televised games, including Ump Cam, live look-in at the MLB Replay Operations Center, Wire Cam, field locations for pregame and postgame, new RF with a shallow the camera Increased access to depth of field, and in-game interviews with players.

“In addition to expanding reach, Major League Baseball is leveraging resources to deliver an outstanding production to fans with new technology, improved picture quality and better access to games and players,” said Billy Chambers, MLB executive vice president of local media.

Since 2009, Major League Baseball has owned and operated the MLB Network, which has produced live games for 16 seasons, has been critically acclaimed for its content and won 42 National Sports Emmy Awards in 13 different categories. Major League Baseball was the first professional sports league to live-stream a regular season game on August 26, 2002. In 2024, baseball fans streamed 14.5 billion minutes of live baseball games and content on MLB.TV, a record for the service.

More information on where and how fans can watch will be made available closer to the 2025 season.