Given today is Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day (despite whatever confusing metric was used to determine it), Google Maps has put together a new video that features Google Earth’s 3D models of some of the league’s most storied stadiums, …

SiriusXM has just signed a multi-year contract with MLB Advanced Media to stream all Major League Baseball games. SiriusXM subscribers can access live streaming broadcasts of every MLB game on mobile devices and online, and games will continue to be …

Remember the community college baseball team that beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3 years ago? Well, they did it again. This time they beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in what manager Buch Schowalter called a “controlled scrimmage.” Yeah right. To be …

With just one short day left until the official kickoff of the 2012 season of Major League Baseball, Roku has announced this year’s update to the MLB.TV channel on their popular set top streaming media boxes. While the MLB.TV channel …

There’s no doubt that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter allow us to engage and interact with our favorite sports and sports personalities like never before and Major League Baseball is no exception. BanyanBranch.com brings us this next infographic …

Baseball season is right around the corner, and with it comes several great new ways to keep up with what your favorite team is doing this year. In February, as Spring Training was getting underway, MLB announced the 2012 edition …

Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants has signed a 5 year $112.5 million contract extension that will keep him in the black and orange through the 2017 season. The deal is the largest in history for a right hander …

XBox Live Gold members will now have the ability to watch more on demand programming with the addition of three new services: xfinity TV, HBO go, and MLB.TV. Xfinity is an on-demand television service from Comcast, that brings your favorite …

Microsoft and Major League Baseball have announced that the MLB.TV app is available today on Xbox LIVE. The app allows you to watch live HD broadcasts of every out-of-market regular season game, as well as archived games and highlights from …

Another year is already nearly a quarter gone, and with the arrival of March comes something that sports fans everywhere have been eagerly awaiting all winter: Baseball (March what? Basket-who?). At the beginning of March the players, coaches, and staff …

Earlier today 2K Play, Nickelodeon, and Major League Baseball announced that Nicktoons MLB 3D is now in stores. The first baseball game designed exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS hand-held system, Nicktoons MLB 3D combines the talent and tenacity of baseball’s …

A heart felt look inside the souls of Cubs fans and how they’ll feel if when their team wins the World Series -or- the ultimate tease, that’s just mean, because the Cubs are destined to never win another World Series? …

San Francisco Giants PItcher and NL Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum (also known in some circles as that guy that looks like Mitch Kramer from Dazed and Confused) has joined Twitter, and now has a verified account, as baseball fans …

Major League Baseball has thrown its fans a curveball. Starting today the new MLB.TV app is going to be available on the App Store and Android Marketplace. This time there is a twist. The basic app is completely free to …

On December 18, 2008 the New York Yankess signed AJ Burnett to a five year $82.5 million contract. His first couple of seasons in pinstripes were successful, helping the team win the World Series in 2009 by winning game 2 …

A couple weeks ago, Google announced the expansion of its NFL-related search results to include more information, courtesy of its partnership with ESPN, which had already expanded its MLB results in the past. Now, Google has announced further expansion of …

Yahoo and MLB.com have launched “MLB.com Full Count,” a new online video offering produced and powered by MLB.com in partnership with Yahoo Sports. “MLB.com Full Count lets fans follow live Major League Baseball action throughout the remainder of the regular …

Professional Sports organizations are notoriously cautious when it comes to their players’ interactions with social media. And rightly so, as athletes have continued to fail at social media in various ways and to various degrees since the middle of the …

Baseball fans in Japan and four other countries have reason to celebrate today.  A record-breaking deal involving YouTube and Major League Baseball has been struck, and as a result, said fans will gain access to lots and lots of footage.

In an email to WebProNews, a YouTube representative provided some more details in the form of bullet points.  One highlight is that "[f]ull-length, catch-up MLB games [will be] available in Japan 36 hours after they air."  Historic game footage will be offered, too, along with profiles of Japanese players.

MLB.com has partnered with Fox Sports and Turner Sports, the rights holders to postseason baseball games, to allow fans to watch all of the playoffs online at Postseason.TV.

Postseason.TV will launch Wednesday, October 7, when the Division Series begins on TBS. It will be accessible from MLB.com, FoxSports.com, MSN and MLB.com/TBSHotCorner.

Major League Baseball said today it is partnering with Cablevision and the New York Yankees cable network, YES, to offer live games online in the team’s local market.

"These agreements are an important part of our global effort to give fans greater access to our game," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig.