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MLB schedule redesign long overdue

The 2023 MLB schedule is going to be awesome.

The quality of play on the field at PNC Park may vary and either be similar to 2022 or improved, but the visitors will pack a different punch more frequently than ever.

MLB released each team’s 162-game schedule Wednesday with the highlight being the most obvious pleasure to baseball fanatics: less division games and more against the opposing league.

For the first time in modern MLB history, all 30 teams will play each other during the course of the season.

Division competition will be decreased from 76 to 52 games, or 19 games to 13 against a club’s four division opponents.