2018 Major League Baseball season
| 2018 MLB season | |
|---|---|
| League | Major League Baseball |
| Sport | Baseball |
| Duration | March 29, 2018 – September 30, 2018 |
| Number of games | 162 |
| Number of teams | 30 |
| Regular season | |
| League Postseason | |
| World Series | |
The 2018 Major League Baseball season will begin on March 29, 2018 and is scheduled to end on September 30, 2018. The Postseason will begin on October 2. The 2018 World Series is set to begin on October 23, 2018 and a potential Game 7 is scheduled on October 31, 2018.
The 89th Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be held on July 17, 2018 at Nationals Park, the home of the Washington Nationals.
The 2018 Major League Baseball draft will be held on June 4–6.
As has been the case since 2013 all teams will play their four division opponents 19 times each for a total of 76 games. They will play six or seven games against each of the other ten same-league opponents for a total of 66 games, and 20 inter-league games. The primary inter-league match-ups are AL East vs NL East, AL Central vs NL Central, and AL West vs NL West.
Since "natural rivalry" matchups are part of the three-year divisional rotation, the schedule format for interleague games will be different from previous years. The 20 interleague games each team played consisted of two three-game series (one home, one away) against its natural rival (total of six games), two two-game series (one home, one away) against each team for two other opponents (total of eight games; one of the matchups took place back-to-back within the same week), and a single three-game series against each team for the last two (one home, one away; total of six games).
The Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians will play a two game series in Puerto Rico On April 17 and 18.
This will be the fifth year of the current eight-year deals with Fox Sports, ESPN and TBS. Fox will eight weeks of baseball on Saturday Nights leading up to the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game which will also air on Fox. Fox will then televise Saturday afternoon games for the last four weeks of the regular season. Fox Sports 1 will televise games on Tuesday and on Saturdays both during the afternoon and night. ESPN will televise games on its flagship telecast Sunday Night Baseball as well as Monday and Wednesday Nights. TBS will televise Sunday afternoon games for the last 13 weeks of the regular season. Fox and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts will be exclusive; all other national telecasts will be subject to local blackout.
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