Saturday, November 14, 2026

MLB.tv Sets New Viewership Records in 20th Season

  • The out-of-market streaming service saw a neary 10% increase in minutes watched.
  • Yankees-Red Sox season opener was the most-streamed game of the season.
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The Mets’ collapse in the NL East. Aaron Judge and Albert Pujols pursuing records. The Dodgers sealing up the NL West on Sept. 12 en route to 111 wins, the most by any NL team since 1906.

That and more led to an MLB.tv viewers to record viewership in 2022. 

MLB.tv’s subscribers watched more than 11.5 billion minutes of baseball, a nearly 10% increase over 2021, according to an MLB news release.

The increase is an indication the streaming boom hasn’t abated.

MLB.tv started off strong is in its 20th season of streaming out-of-market games, with more than 1.34 billion minutes watched through the first dozen games — a 12% increase over last season. 

The most-streamed game in MLB.tv history came this season between two teams that are on TV more than “The Big Bang Theory” reruns: the Red Sox. vs. Yankees on April 8 — the first games of the season for both teams. 

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