All the talk of baseball dying is just nonsense. In 2025, Major League Baseball enjoyed a third consecutive year of increased attendance, with 71,409,421 fans attending a game this year. Last year, they hit the seventy million mark. It could have been higher had Tampa Bay and Sacramento played in major league parks in 2025.

It’s the first time MLB has had three consecutive years of attendance growth since 2005, 2006, and 2007.

The Dodgers led the way with a club-record 4 million-plus in attendance. Only both New York teams had ever drawn more than four million in one season, that was 2008. Not by accident, these three years of attendance growth have coincided with the rules changes to speed up the game, add offense, and improve the product on the field.

More good news: Through the League Championship Series, MLB Postseason viewership is averaging 4.48 million viewers in the United States, making it the most-watched postseason since 2017, an thirteen percent increase over last year.

More people are attending. More people are watching. The sport is in a good place as we head into tonight’s Game 1 of the World Series in Toronto. Let’s hope this one goes seven. Because after this, it’s dark until March 25, 2026.

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