MLB Finalizing New Broadcast Deals with ESPN, NBC, Netflix

Major League Baseball’s ever-evolving broadcast landscape is about to take its next shape with new deals soon to be announced with ESPN, NBC, and Netflix. This comes via multiple reports, the most comprehensive of which is from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic. According to Marchand, NBC/Peacock is expected to pay around $200 million annually for Sunday night baseball and the first round of postseason play, while Netflix will pay nearly $50 million for the first Opening Day game, the Home Run Derby, and the Field of Dreams game.

Those agreements all run for three years, which is because ESPN opted out of the remainder of a contract that was due to pay MLB $1.65 billion. Instead, the…