Watching Mariners games is now going to look a lot different after latest update

While many Mariners fans were excited and hopeful about some serious changes to this roster and specifically the offense, a few others have taken place, off the field. Just recently, Mariners longtime play-by-play announcer, Dave Sims, was reported to be a finalist for the same job with the New York Yankees, his hometown team. Fans were dealt a major blow as his 17-year tenure in the northwest came to an end, accepting the job to replace the legendary John Sterling.

On a more positive note, as it pertains to watching and listening to the Seattle Mariners, some massive changes could be coming that might make it easier to watch the club.

This week,The Athletic’s Evan Drellich reported the Mariners are going to become one of eight teams that will fall under Major League Baseball’s “in-house broadcasting group,” otherwise known as MLB Media. There are currently seven other teams that MLB will serve as the broadcast network for, and it looks like they are going to continue to expand in that department.

The Mariners have maintained a majority ownership of the ROOT Sports Northwest network, and amidst all the RSN issues that plagued teams last offseason, ended up with 100% ownership of the network, though the future still seemed murky.

They still retain this ownership and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred voiced the concerns that still linger about the depth of the relationship, stating, “It’s just complicated because they have distribution agreements that ran longer. We’ll do the production for them, not clear how much more.”

Either way, it seems like things will be very different in 2025 and beyond, and hopefully the future does not include any sort of blackouts to make it easier for fans to watch their favorite team. We should learn more soon about the full relationship between the two and what will happen with Mariners games, but for now, this is a huge win for M's fans and baseball fans around the world.

After all, the fewer local sports network deals that affect offseason spending, the better. Hopefully this stablizes and the Mariners can feel more comfortable dishing out contracts in free agency.