Netflix secures a three-year agreement to broadcast MLB live events and games.

Today, Major League Baseball revealed new media rights agreements with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that will span the next three seasons. The deal with Netflix introduces live MLB games to its offering, further expanding its sports programming collection in a setup valued at approximately $50 million annually, as reported by Front Office Sports.

Netflix will showcase one game on Opening Night of each season, alongside the Home Run Derby and one “special event game” each year. In 2026, this will include the “Field of Dreams” match set to be aired from Dyersville, Iowa, on August 13th, 2026, featuring the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.

The games contracted with all three networks comprise a media agreement that MLB had previously established solely with ESPN, and on NBC’s side, secures the Sunday Night Baseball game, as well as draft coverage and various games for its channels. Per the league’s announcement, “Certain Sunday night games will be available on Peacock and simulcast on NBCSN during weeks overlapping with pre-existing media rights contracts on NBC,” while Peacock will also feature MLB’s Sunday Leadoff games that commence around noon, simulcasting on the newly rebranded NBC Sports Network.

And for ESPN, it has a 30-game broadcasting arrangement every season that will be exclusive to its channels and the ESPN app, along with 150 out-of-market games streaming (one each day) in the ESPN app, and the capability to sell MLB Network and some in-market games via the ESPN app.