Single-Team MLB.TV Streaming is on the Way!

For the first time in sports streaming history Major League Baseball and their streaming service MLB.TV are offering an a la carte option to their fans. In year's past you had to purchase the MLB.TV service for all 30 teams if you wanted to see out of market games like myself and the price was a bit bulky. Sure I sucked it up and paid it anyway, I need to see my Yankees, but it looks like I may be getting a break as soon as the 2016 season as MLB.TV looks to be headed towards offering a one-team streaming service option.

The league will not confirm this until February according to FORBES but the league didn't deny it either saying this:

“… beginning next season MLB will make single-team, out-of-market streams available for purchase (alongside the out-of-market package) on MLB.TV.”

 There's no word on how much this will cost fans but it would presumably be considerably cheaper than the $130 a season that MLB.TV Premium costs now. There's also no word if this will start out as a "per game" experiment or if it will go all season long but you would have to think it would be the latter and not the former. It would make sense for them to do both in my opinion.

To give you an idea of where this is headed the NHL had a similar issue come out recently and they settled by offering one-team out of market streaming for a 20% discount (which would put MLB.TV at roughly $104 a season) of what it would cost to stream all the games live. Stay tuned, but it's coming.

Game Thread: New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia Phillies 6/24

I get excited about almost every Yankees game because I love the sport and I love this team but I am extra excited about this one as it marks the return of Ivan Nova off the disabled list. Fourteen months is a long time to wait for a pitcher to come back from a Tommy John surgery but the wait is over as Nova is deemed completely healthy and ready to return to a mound near you. What did the Yankees get him for his welcome back present you ask? Just a matchup against Cole Hamels of the Philadelphia Phillies inside the Bronx and Yankee Stadium is all. The game will be played at 1:05 pm ET and can be seen on the YES Network and MLB TV.

The Yankees head west to take on the Houston Astros after this afternoon’s game while the Phillies go anywhere but here so it will be a while before the Yankees return home to the stadium. You have no excuse not to have your Yankees Tickets in hand for when the team returns home to the Bronx. By clicking the Yankees Tickets link at the top of the blog you can get those tickets in hand for when the team comes back to Yankee Stadium. If you can’t make it live then that’s not a problem, simply jump on Twitter (@GreedyStripes) or the comments section of the site to interact with us during each and every Yankees game.

I’m pumped for this game so while I may not be as active as I normally am on Twitter rest assured I am in some corner of work working watching this game on the MLB At Bat app on my iPhone. Go Yankees!