Netflix signs a three year deal to stream MLB live events and games

Today, Major League Baseball announced caller media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that tally for the adjacent 3 seasons. The Netflix woody brings unrecorded MLB games to its level and continues to turn its room of sports programming successful an statement that Front Office Sports reports is worthy astir $50 cardinal per year.

Netflix will watercourse a azygous crippled connected Opening Night of each season, the Home Run Derby, and 1 “special lawsuit game” each year. In 2026, that volition screen the “Field of Dreams” crippled broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, connected August 13th, 2026, betwixt the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.

The games signed up by each 3 networks screen a media woody that MLB antecedently had with ESPN alone, and connected NBC’s end, gives it the Sunday Night Baseball game, arsenic good arsenic draught sum and different games for its networks. According to the league, “Some Sunday nighttime games volition watercourse connected Peacock and simulcast connected NBCSN during weeks determination is overlap with antecedently negotiated media rights deals connected NBC,” portion Peacock volition besides transportation MLB’s Sunday Leadoff games that commencement astir noon and simulcast connected the recently relaunched NBC Sports Network.

And for ESPN, it has a 30-game broadcast bundle each play that volition beryllium exclusive to its channels and the ESPN app, 150 out-of-market games streaming (one per day) successful the ESPN app, and the quality to merchantability MLB Network and immoderate in-market games via the ESPN app.