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Field of Streams: Phillies Field Of Dreams Game Will Be on Netflix

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Nov 19th, 2025 · 4:16 PM EST

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The Field of Dreams game between the Phillies and Twins will stream on Netflix this season according to Andrew Marchand at The Athletic (with ads) who details all of the new broadcast deals for Major League Baseball:

Major League Baseball is set to announce its new TV deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN, sources briefed on the league’s plans told The Athletic.

The new agreements will give ESPN rights to out-of-market games for all 30 teams and six in-market clubs. NBC/Peacock will become the new home of the first round of the playoffs and Sunday Night Baseball, while Netflix will showcase the standalone Opening Day game in prime time, the Home Run Derby and the ‘Field of Dreams’ game.

This will be the first time Opening Day, the Home Run Derby, and the Field of Dreams game will be on a streamer. What’s that sound? Your old man’s blood pressure rising when he figures out he needs to download another platform to watch his Phillies. Be a good son and lend him your password some time.

Live look of ghost at the Field of Dreams asking to play catch:

The MLB rights will be spread over multiple networks. They’ll be split between Netflix, Fox, Apple, NBC/Peacock (select Sunday games) and ESPN. ESPN will also get MLB.tv in the deal and according to Marchand if you’re a T-Mobile customer you will still get it for free. Here are some of the dollar amounts if you’re into that sort of thing:

After the opt-out, there was an acrimonious period in which MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred called ESPN a “shrinking” platform in a memo to team owners. Then, a long period of negotiations led to the announcement of deals that will begin in about four months.

Sources briefed on the agreements said NBC/Peacock is expected to pay nearly $200 million per year, while Netflix will dole out $50 million per season. MLB will receive almost $750 million per year in total over the next three seasons, compared to ESPN’s $1.65 billion, if there were no opt-outs. NBC’s deal includes some ratings bonus clauses that could make the exact number fluctuate, but will not exceed $200 million, the sources said.

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MLB met with ESPN to make up for lost money in old assets and, in return, will still receive the $1.65 billion over the next three years. To do so, MLB had to relinquish its rights to MLB.TV, which is the league’s out-of-market platform for games. Platforms have coveted MLB.TV for years, but the league has refused to relinquish it until now.

Very funny to watch Manfred return back to The Mouse and lose MLB.tv in the process after first opting out and playing hardball. This is the guy who has his cronies threatening Bryce Harper?

Apple TV will still show select Friday games until 2028 and FOX/TBS will still have the playoffs and World Series past the Wild Card round. From a business standpoint it feels like there’s a shift going back to linear TV because all people still watch on broadcast television is news and live sports and NBC is at the forefront of it. They now add the MLB to go along with their portfolio of the NFL and NBA and are poised to dominate Sunday Night’s throughout the year. Poor Mike Tirico went from calling a game a week in the fall/winter, three Triple Crown races, some golf tournaments, and the Olympics every four years to a full plate.