Friday Night Baseball's Early-Season Slate Spotlights San Diego

Despite recent shake-ups that will greatly impact what televised baseball looks like in the long-term, the 2025 MLB season is set to look similar to what we saw last year. That includes Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball package, which airs two double-headers each week of the regular season; a schedule that dropped earlier this week for early-season dates from Mar. 28-June 27.

• While no team had an overwhelmingly large amount relative to others, the San Diego Padres led the way with four appearances (all in May and June), and another seven teams – including the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers – had three apiece.
• Of the teams with three or more selections, three (Padres, Dodgers, Diamondbacks) were in the National League West and one (Rangers) was in the AL West, potentially indicating a slight focus on western teams as those games don't always draw as well as East Coast games do on traditional TV.
• 26 of MLB's 30 franchises appear at least once on Friday Night Baseball in the early schedule, with only the Athletics, Marlins, Rockies and White Sox excluded (all of those are also projected among the worst teams of 2025).
• Five teams only have one appearance: Angels, Brewers, Nationals, Royals and Yankees; with the latter team's schedule likely impacted by its own separate streaming deal with Amazon.