The 2023 MLB schedule looks slightly different than what we’ve become accustomed to. There will still be a 162-game season; however, how the way those 162 games are distributed is different. For the first time in MLB history, each team will go up against the other 29 teams during the regular season.
That results in the number of divisional games for each to decrease from 76 games to 52 games.
The reason for this change is the appeal of seeing star players from each league seeing each other every season, at least for one series.
MLB.com made a list of stars making their ballpark debuts in 2023, and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw has a chance to do just that come summer.