MLB (Major League Baseball) is a professional baseball league that is one of the oldest major professional sports leagues in the Canada and United States. There are 30 teams in total in the league, which is separated in two, one is the American League and second is the National League and there are 15 teams in each league divided into three parts which are Central, East, and West.
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The National League was formed in 1876 and the American League was formed in 1901. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities beginning in 1903, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament with the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
Baseball’s first openly all-professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869. The first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another.
The period before 1920 in baseball is known as the dead-ball era, during which players would rarely hit home runs. In the late 1910s, baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II. Shortly after the war, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier.
Today, MLB is composed of 30 teams: 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. Teams play 162 games each season and five teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions that dates to 1903. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America and in several other countries throughout the world. MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 69.6 million spectators in 2018.
Highest Paid 20 MLB Players
| Players | Salary |
| Stephen Strasburg | 38.3 Million |
| Max Scherzer | 37.4 Million |
| Zack Greinke | 34.5 Million |
| Mike Trout | 34.1 Million |
| Clayton Kershaw | 31 Million |
| David Price | 31 Million |
| Miguel Cabrera | 30 Million |
| Yoenis Cespedes | 29 Million |
| Albert Pujols | 28 Million |
| Justin Verlander | 28 Million |
| Felix Hernandez | 27.9 Million |
| Jon Lester | 27.5 Million |
| Nolan Arenado | 26 Million |
| Giancarlo Stanton | 26 Million |
| Jake Arrieta | 25 Million |
| Joey Votto | 25 Million |
| Jordan Zimmermann | 25 Million |
| Robinson Cano | 24 Million |
| J.D. Martinez | 23.75 Million |
| Josh Donaldson | 23 Million |
Teams Participating in MLB
In the MLB there are two league that participate which are divided into American League and National league and each league consist into three part which are Central, East and West. Following are the teams that takes part in the games.
American League
Central
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Kansas City Royals
Minnesota Twins
East
Baltimore Orioles
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Tampa Bay Rays
Toronto Blue Jays
West
Houston Astros
Los Angeles Angels
Oakland Athletics
Seattle Mariners
Texas Rangers
National League
Central
Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati Reds
Milwaukee Brewers
Pittsburgh Pirates
St. Louis Cardinals
East
Atlanta Braves
Miami Marlins
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
Washington Nationals
West
Arizona Diamondbacks
Colorado Rockies
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
Broadcasting TV Channels
United States:
ESPN/ESPN2
Fox/FS1
TBS
MLB Network
NBC
YouTube (live streaming)
Canada:
Sportsnet
RDS
TVA Sports
TSN/TSN2
MLB Network
ABC
CBS