2025 Major League Baseball

The 2025 Major League Baseball season will be the twenty-sixth season in which the two major leagues, the National League and the American League, have been consolidated into a single entity under the authority of the Commissioner, Rob Manfred.

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Events

The 2025 Major League Baseball season did not come with significant rule changes, for a change, but there was still a lot that was different than the previous year - mainly two teams changing homes. In the case of the former Oakland Athletics, the long saga of trying to find a replacement for the Oakland Coliseum had come to an end the year before with the decision to move to team to a temporary home in Sacramento, CA for at least two seasons while waiting for a permanent home to be made ready in Las Vegas, NV. As of the start of the calendar year, the team was simply known as the "Athletics" on mlb.com, while every other team was designated by its city and nickname. The second move was that of the Tampa Bay Rays, whose aging and long-decried ballpark, Tropicana Field, had been severely damaged by Hurricane Milton a few days after the final game of the 2024 season, and would be unavailable this year as a result; the Rays had elected to play their games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, FL, the spring training home of the New York Yankees, with the future also murky.

One thing that had not changed was MLB's willingness to expand the game overseas in what was dubbed the "MLB World Tour", and this year it started with a two-game Tokyo Series played at the Tokyo Dome on March 18-19, featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending World Champions and the Chicago Cubs, both teams featuring high-profile Japanese stars on their rosters. Opening Day then came on March 27th.

Further Reading

• Paul Casella: "5 storylines to watch at Tokyo Series", mlb.com, January 18, 2025. [1]
• Michael Clair: "Dodgers, Cubs to stage star-studded showdown in Tokyo to begin 2025 season", mlb.com, July 20, 2024. [2]
• Andrew Simon: "Here are 6 dates to know on the 2025 schedule", mlb.com, January 14, 2025. [3]

See also

• 2025 American League
• 2025 National League
• 2025 Postseason

2025 MLB season by team