It’s a historic year for professional baseball. Opening Day 2025 will take place on Tuesday, March 18 when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs meet for a two-game series in Japan. This will be the earliest scheduled Opening Day in league history, although most MLB clubs will see a more traditional start date of Thursday, March 27.

With that in mind, The Streamable wants to ensure that every fan knows the cheapest way to stream their favorite team’s games during the 2025 season. The vast majority of MLB games aren’t played on national networks like ESPN, FS1, or TBS; rather, they play on regional sports channels that deliver games to audiences in the home markets of the clubs in question.

These regional sports networks (RSNs) aren’t distributed across every streaming service, so we’ll break down the cheapest ways to stream each and every MLB team in the table below.

The Streamable’s experts have been tracking the best ways to watch live sports without cable since 2017, and whether it’s less expensive for you to get a live TV streaming subscription like DIRECTV STREAM or Fubo, or if your club has an on-demand service like the Gotham Sports App — which is offering a special discounted price of $20 per month to stream Yankees games to start the 2025 season — we’ve got you covered.

The best ways to stream MLB games in 2025:

Cheapest way to stream every MLB team in 2025

A previous version of this article did not account for all monthly or season-long options, or the movement of YES App content to the Gotham Sports App.

So which MLB team is cheapest to stream in 2025?

The Pittsburgh Pirates officially have the cheapest monthly option to stream in-market games all season long, as SNP 360 costs just $18 per month. The Texas Rangers don’t offer a monthly subscription on Victory+, but if you do a little math and divide the $100 season price by the number of months in the regular season, it works out to even less, at around $14.28 per month.

Every team that is allowing MLB to distribute their games in 2025 will charge just $20 per month to stream on special, in-market plans from MLB.TV. Only fans living in the home markets of these teams can sign up for these plans, but if your favorite club is one of them and you live in the home market where the team resides, you’re in good shape!

The FanDuel Sports Network streaming service matches MLB.TV in terms of expense, as it too costs $20 per month. So long as you live in the home market of one of the nine teams offered by a FanDuel Sports Network linear channel, you can watch your local club for only $20 monthly with FanDuel Sports Network streamer.

Teams like the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, and New York Yankees have on-demand apps dedicated to providing just their games to fans in local markets, usually costing between $20 and $30 per month; however, in most cases you also get live games from other area teams as well. The Yankees have a somewhat unique arrangement, as some of their in-market games are Prime Video exclusives, so you’ll need that streamer and the YES App to watch the team without cable this year.

Otherwise, viewers will have to turn to a live TV streaming service to watch their favorite local MLB team this year. Hulu + Live TV comes with NBC Sports RSNs, and costs $83 per month. Teams with RSNs available on Fubo will cost $101, including the Fubo Pro plan and the $16 monthly RSN fee associated with it. Clubs with RSNs only on DIRECTV STREAM are the most expensive to watch, as their games will cost $115 per month to watch on that service’s CHOICE package.

How do you stream nationally broadcast MLB games?

Keep in mind that depending on your team, there is the possibility — and perhaps even likelihood — that some of your team’s games will not air on an in-market network. Instead, many games will be broadcast on network and cable channels like ESPN, Fox, FS1, MLB Network, and TBS.

Other games will air on Apple TV+ and the Roku Channel. So, if you are looking to watch all 162 games from your favorite team this year, you will need to make arrangements for how you will stream any games airing on those platforms as well. Fortunately, the Roku Channel is completely free and Apple TV+ runs just $10 per month. So, if you want to maximize your baseball viewing, it won’t break the bank.

However, since Apple only airs two games per week, if you want to skip out on paying the extra money for those Friday night games, that probably won’t impact your viewing plans too much. Roku will only broadcast one game per week, always early on Sunday.

What is the cheapest way to stream out-of-market MLB games?

While watching your favorite team can be a bit complicated if you live in the home market of your favorite squad, it does get considerably easier if you live farther away from the team you root for. That is because Major League Baseball operates the single most innovative platform in sports streaming history MLB.TV. There, you can stream every game not available in the market where you live.

MLB.TV offers a number of different ways to subscribe, and none of them are going up in price for the 2025 season. If you just want to watch your favorite team, you can sign up for $130 for the season. However, if you want to have access to every out-of-market MLB game, you can either go for the $30 per month plan or the $150 option for the full season.

Either way, these packages will cover all games shown on RSNs outside of your home area. So, if your favorite out-of-market team plays the team covered in your market, you will have to find another way to watch. But on the whole, MLB.TV is a baseball lover’s best friend.

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MLB.TV

MLB.TV is the official streaming service of Major League Baseball. You can see every out-of-market game live or on-demand and choose home or away TV and radio feeds. The app allows fans to watch up to four games simultaneously on the same screen through its Multi-view feature. MLB.TV can be added to your Sling TV or Prime Video subscription.

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Users can choose to follow the entire league for “All Teams” ($139.99) plan, which is also available for “All Teams” ($29.99) a month, or you can stream one team’s out-of-market games for “Single Team” ($119.99).

One major caveat about the service: Your local games may be blacked out through MLB.TV, so you may still need to watch through your local provider. As of 2025, MLB.TV does offer in-market plans for a handful of teams, including the New York Mets, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants.

If you want to go beyond the games, MLB.TV provides features, documentaries, and classic games.

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