Major League Baseball and NBCUniversal’s Peacock have reached a deal that may see 18 video games all through the 2022-23 season broadcast on the streaming service, per the latter’s tweet Thursday.

The listed Sunday video games will begin between 11:30 am and midday ET, sooner than they’d have previously (sorry West Coast), in order to reduce interference with the Sunday afternoon video games that begin at 1 pm ET. The MLB already has an current partnership with ESPN for the printed rights to Sunday Night Baseball. The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game will reportedly be a Peacock exclusive this season was effectively.

Though the main points of the association haven’t but formally been introduced, Forbes reported in March that it will possible be a 2-year deal value $30 million yearly, accessible solely on Peacock’s premium $10/month tier and unique, in that solely native market viewers will be capable of watch with out ponying up for a subscription — a minimum of for that month the sport you need to watch is airing. Additionally, MLB has struck a take care of Apple TV+ to broadcast its Friday Night Doubleheaders, these video games begin at 7pm ET, similar to ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball matchups. 

All of this broadcast hodgepodge is along with the MLB’s current MLB.TV streaming service in addition to a rumored “national service” that might purportedly remove native blackouts for streamers and appeal to followers from amongst cord-cutters. In all, the MLB’s nationwide media offers will complete $1.96 billion this season, a 26 % improve from final 12 months, per Forbes. So if you wish to watch out-of-market baseball this 12 months, you’d higher have your password listing and debit card prepared.