2022 Major League Baseball season

• Seth Beer (ARI):
  • Became the first rookie in Major League history to hit a walk-off home run while trailing on Opening Day on April 7 against the San Diego Padres.[27]

• Steven Kwan (CLE):
  • Reached base 18 times in his first five career games, the most by any player since at least 1901.[28]

• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (TOR):
  • Became the first player in Major League history to hit three home runs in a game (April 13), then strike out at least four times the following game (April 14) against the New York Yankees.[29]

• Miguel Cabrera (DET):
  • Recorded his 3,000th career hit with a single in the first-inning against the Colorado Rockies on April 23. He became the 33rd player to reach this mark.[30] He also becomes the seventh player in Major League history to record 3,000 hits and hit 500 home runs for his career. He joins Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, Albert Pujols, and Alex Rodriguez to reach these numbers.[31]

• Justin Verlander (HOU):
  • Became the 138th pitcher in Major League history to amass 3,000 career innings pitched during the game against the Seattle Mariners on April 16.[32]

• Tylor Megill / Drew Smith / Joely Rodríguez / Seth Lugo / Edwin Díaz (NYM)
  • The five pitchers combine to throw the second no-hitter in franchise history by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 3–0 on April 29. It was accomplished on 12 strikeouts and six walks on 159 total pitches. Megill pitched the first five innings. It is the 17th combined no-hitter in league history. This was also the 20th time that the Phillies have be no-hit in their history, which ties them with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the most times being no-hit of any franchise, which includes the postseason.[33][34]

• Houston Astros:
  • Won their 10th consecutive Opening Day contest by defeating the Los Angeles Angels 3–1 on April 7, tying the Major League record set by the Boston Beaneaters (1887–1896).[35][36]

• Bud Black (COL):
  • Won his 1,000th game as a manager as the Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 10. He becomes the 66th manager to reach this mark.[37]

• Alyssa Nakken (SF):
  • Became the first woman in Major League history to coach on-field during a regular season game on April 12. She coached first-base against the San Diego Padres after Giants coach Antoan Richardson was ejected.[38]

• Tampa Bay Rays:
  • Became the first team in Major League history to lose a no-hitter in extra innings and win in a walk-off on April 23. The Rays had a combined no-hitter broken up in the top of the 10th by the Boston Red Sox, and won the game in the bottom of the inning.[39]

• The renamed Cleveland Guardians use a new "Guardians" wordmark logo, a "diamond C" logo on the caps, and an alternate "winged G" logo on the right sleeve of the home uniforms. The players' names and numbers are also printed in a new font that the team states "represents the unique characteristics of Cleveland with angular letters and numbers that mimic the architecture" of the Hope Memorial Bridge and its Guardians of Traffic statues. Other than that, the red, white and blue color schemes on the regular home and road uniforms, the red alternate home uniform, and the blue alternate road uniform basically remain unchanged.[40]
• The Royals have made some stylistic changes, including using "Kansas City" in block letters on the road uniforms.[41]
• The Reds introduced a new alternate red uniform. The uniform has the player's number on the left and the Mr. Redlegs mascot on the right.
• All teams wore modified uniforms on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day. The back of each uniform has Robinson's no. 42 rendered in a bold Dodger blue font. Patches on the left sleeve contain the no. 42 rendered in the team's regular number font.

Major League Baseball and Nike announced that an additional seven teams will take part in the "City Connect" program. These teams will join the Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, and the San Francisco Giants who unveiled last season's uniforms.[42]

• The Nationals' "City Connect" uniform featured an anthracite base, pink accents and printed cherry blossoms in honor of the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival.[43]
• The Astros' "City Connect" uniform featured an navy base, tequila sunset accents (suggestive of its 70s and 80s rainbow uniforms), "Space City" stenciled in the NASA 'worm' font on the front, and a hat with a planet revolving around a futuristic version of the "H-star" logo, in honor of Houston being home to the Johnson Space Center.[44]
• The Royals' "City Connect" uniform featured a navy base and powder blue accents, and a stylized "KC" insignia in homage to Kansas City's "City of Fountains" nickname.[45]

• All dates as scheduled and subject to change

This is the first year of the new seven year deals with ESPN, Fox Sports, Turner Sports, Apple, NBC Sports/Peacock, and MLB Network.

Fox Sports renewed its television rights for regular season games for both the main Fox broadcast network and FS1. For the first time since 2013, Fox will air at least two or three games each Saturday evening beginning May 28 (except two weeks in September which will air on Thursday nights due to college football), as Fox’s new contract will ensure more games air on the Fox network. Fox will broadcast the 2022 MLB All-Star Game and the 2022 MLB at Field of Dreams game.[53]

The ESPN networks will see a decrease in its games from prior years. ESPN will continue to air the national opening night game, this year airing on ESPN2 due to ESPN covering the Masters on the main network, and 25 exclusive Sunday Night Baseball telecasts as well as the Home Run Derby and other select telecasts. Under the new deals, ESPN will no longer televise weekly telecasts on Monday or Wednesday nights.[54] ABC will also carry select games this season. ESPN+ will also air daily games which will simulcast regional sports network broadcasts, unlike ESPN’s NHL package, with blackout restrictions applicable.[55]

TBS will see an increase in its games and switch from airing Sunday afternoon games to Tuesday night games.[56]

MLB Network will continue to show their usual slate of games under their Showcase package.

Apple TV+ is the first non-television platform to air exclusive MLB games on a regular basis. Games will air on Friday nights and are available in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. For the first 12 weeks of the season games will be free, following that time fans must pay for Apple TV+ to watch the games. Apple TV+ also offers "MLB Big Inning," a live show featuring highlights and look-ins airing every weeknight during the regular season.[57]

After airing a three-game weekend series between the Phillies and Giants last season, the streaming service Peacock signed a regular deal for a new Sunday morning package. The first game under the new 18-game package will also be simulcast on NBC, who will air their first game since the 2000 ALCS. The rest of the package will air exclusively on Peacock’s premium service.

For a fourth straight year, YouTube will air 15 exclusive weekday afternoon games.[58]

Under the new deals, the ESPN networks (including ABC) hold exclusive rights to the new Wild Card rounds created by the expanded playoffs.[59] The rest of the postseason rights remain the same, including the annual league rotation among the networks. The rest of the American League postseason, the ALDS and ALCS, will air on TBS, while the rest of the National League postseason will mostly air on Fox and FS1, which include the NLDS (most games) and NLCS exclusively, with MLB Network airing two games in the NLDS (one in each of the series). The World Series will be carried by Fox for the 23rd straight year.[53][54][56]

With the move of Joe Buck to ESPN and Monday Night Football (and any role he holds involving ESPN's baseball coverage to be determined), Fox Sports has named Joe Davis as his replacement;[60] Buck had called World Series games since Fox's first in 1996, and exclusively since the 2000 Series.

• Amazon Prime will exclusively stream 21 Yankees games in the Yankees home market. These games formerly were allocated to WPIX.
• Kevin Brown became the new play-by-play voice for the Baltimore Orioles on MASN, replacing Scott Garceau.
• Kevin Frandsen became the new color commentator for the Washington Nationals on MASN, replacing F. P. Santangelo.
• Dallas Braden became the new primary color commentator for the Oakland Athletics on NBC Sports California, replacing Ray Fosse.

• ESPN Radio will air its 25th season of national coverage, including Sunday Night Baseball, Saturday games, Opening Day, the Home Run Derby, All-Star Game, and the entire Major League Baseball postseason.
• TUDN Radio will air Spanish-language coverage of select regular season and postseason games, including the Home Run Derby, the All-Star Game and the World Series.[61]

• On September 28, 2021, Dodgers Radio announcer Jaime Jarrín announced he plans to retire after the 2022 season, his 64th as part of Dodgers Spanish Radio Broadcast team. Jarrín, who turned 86 in December, will only work Dodgers home games in 2022.[62]
• On March 31, 2022, the New York Mets and Audacy announced that the team's games would be openly streamed on WCBS's Audacy app stream and the Mets website throughout the Mets' territory to make up for shortfalls in the team's radio network, which since 2020 has only consisted of WCBS and WPSL in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where its spring training site is based. Audacy will also produce a Spanish-language broadcast for WEPN, which will also be available through the Audacy app.[63]