Major League Baseball announces the schedule for 2023 season, transpire a more consistent and sharper format

Major League Baseball announces the schedule for 2023 season, transpire a more consistent and sharper format

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Major League Baseball has definitely come up with a solid format after the release of their 2023 season schedule. According the new and much more balanced schedule, Opening Day on March 30, is a massive change for the sport. As per this season, 18 teams are either in possession of a slot or within seven games of one.

Now the Major League Baseball’s latest set of rules: a 162-game regular season – 142 intraleague games and 20 interleague contests for each team, in a structure of two leagues and six divisions, with six playoff slots up for grabs in each circuit.

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“This new format creates more consistent opponent matchups as Clubs compete for Postseason berths,” Major League Baseball chief operations and strategy officer Chris Marinak said in a release, “particularly in the recently expanded Wild Card round.”

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“Additionally, this fan-friendly format provides fans with the opportunity to see more opponent matchups, with a particular focus on dramatically expanding our most exciting Interleague matchups, and offers more national exposure to the star players throughout our game.”

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The new rules and format will prove to be intriguing and schedules will feature more variety. For the first time in modern MLB history, every team will play every other team at some point. Major League Baseball 2023 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard will be held on July 11 at T-Mobile Park — the first Midsummer Classic in Seattle since 2001.

Best takeaways from Major League Baseball’s new announcement according to MLB.com:

  1. The stars will all get to play each other
  2. You’ll get a far more balanced Wild Card race
  3. You can now schedule a different road trip every year and not repeat one for a while
  4. The resumption of old-time rivalries and surely the beginning of new ones
  5. We get annual World Series rematches!
  6. No one gets left out on Opening Day and July 4
  7. League-wide pennant chases that go down to the very last day, with some absorbing matchups

Each Major League Baseball team will play 52 games against division opponents, decreased from 76 under the previous schedule structure. Each team will play 64 intraleague games (32 home games and 32 away games), decreased from 66. Now, this is the biggest change, with 46 total Interleague games for each team (AL vs. NL and vice versa), an increase from 20.

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