CLEVELAND — The MLB has announced in a release they will produce and distribute local games for the Cleveland Guardians for the 2025 season.

What You Need To Know

  • The MLB has announced they will produce and distribute local games for the Cleveland Guardians for the 2025 season

  • Cleveland’s games can now reach approximately 235% more households than last season

  • Last season, the MLB negotiated cable and satellite distribution agreements and made direct-to-consumer options available for the Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies. The agreement with the Guardians will be similar to how these games were produced and distributed

  • More information about where and how fans can watch will be made available closer to the 2025 season

The Milwaukee Brewers and the Minnesota Twins will also have their games produced and distributed by the MLB in 2025.

Cleveland’s games can now reach approximately 235% more households than last season.

MLB took over broadcasts of the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks during the 2023 season and the Colorado Rockies this year. The agreement with the Guardians will be similar to how these games were produced and distributed.

MLB could be taking over more teams as Diamond Sports Group continues to go through bankruptcy proceedings. The nation's largest owner of regional sports networks could be down to doing only Atlanta Braves games in 2025.

The operator of the Bally Sports regional networks presented its reorganization plan in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston last week. As part of the reorganization, Diamond plans to void the contracts of the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays and to attempt to rework the deals of the five franchises that are partial owners of their regional sports networks — the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals.

“With the media landscape continuing to evolve, Major League Baseball is committed to serving our fans by ensuring they can see their favorite Clubs, removing blackouts where we can, and ultimately growing the reach of our games,” said Noah Garden, MLB Deputy Commissioner, Business and Media. “We are proud to bring Guardians, Brewers and Twins games to their passionate fan bases with the same high-quality production that we have demonstrated in Arizona, Colorado, and San Diego.”

A final hearing on Diamond's reorganization plan is scheduled for Nov. 14. Diamond also has the rights to 13 NBA and eight NHL teams.

Diamond Sports Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group bought the regional sports networks from The Walt Disney Co. for nearly $10 billion in 2019. Disney was required by the Department of Justice to sell the networks for its acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s film and television assets to be approved.

More information about where and how fans can watch will be made available closer to the 2025 season.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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