By Ryan

MLB Network celebrates the beginning of the 2010 baseball season by featuring 30 live games including all 30 MLB teams in April. The schedule include games on Wednesday afternoons, plus the return of Thursday Night Baseball and Saturday Night Baseball. The schedule from MLB Network:

MLB NETWORK’S 30 GAMES, 30 CLUBS, 30 DAYS – APRIL 2010
* Indicates games produced by MLB Network
All times ET and subject to change, check MLBNetwork.com for updates
Unless otherwise announced, games will be blacked out in each club’s home television territory

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By Ryan

Yeah, it’s starting to feel like baseball season. (Never mind the few inches of snow we got last night.) Whether you prefer cactus or grapefruit, baseball’s exhibition season is getting underway in areas much warmer than I’m in right now. MLB Network announced its schedule of spring training games — 78 total, 45 live — featuring all 30 teams from March 2-April 4. Full release from MLB Network below, and full TV schedule after the jump:

MLB NETWORK TO AIR 78 SPRING TRAINING GAMES

Spring Training Schedule Features 45 Live Games, Includes All 30 MLB Clubs

Secaucus, N.J. – MLB Network today announced its Spring Training game schedule, which will include 78 games featuring 45 live games and all 30 Major League clubs at least three times.  MLB Network’s Spring Training game schedule begins on Tuesday, March 2 at 1:00 p.m. ET with the Atlanta Braves at New York Mets live from Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie, FL. On March 4 at 7:00 p.m. ET, MLB Network will air a rematch of the 2009 World Series as the defending champion New York Yankees face the Philadelphia Phillies. All games will be carriage of local telecasts, including local announcers. MLB Tonight, MLB Network’s signature studio show during the regular season, returns live every weekday on Monday, March 1 at 6:00 p.m. ET.

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By Ryan

MLB Network will again preview each club during spring training with its 30 Clubs in 30 Days series, beginning March 3 with the Detroit Tigers. Here’s the full release and schedule from MLB Network:

NEW SEASON OF30 CLUBS IN 30 DAYS SPRING TRAINING SERIES BEGINS ON MLB NETWORK

One-Hour Specials on Every MLB Club Shot On Location Throughout Spring Training

MLB Tonight, MLB Network’s signature studio show, returns March 1

Secaucus, N.J. – With 41 days until Opening Day, MLB Network today announced it will once again televise the Spring Training series 30 Clubs in 30 Days, with hour-long features on each of the 30 Major League clubs previewing the 2010 season. Starting March 3, MLB Network hosts Greg Amsinger, Victor Rojas and Matt Vasgersian as well as reporters Trenni Kusnierek and Hazel Mae will report from each of the 30 Spring Training camps throughout Florida and Arizona, conducting interviews with key players, coaches and others associated with each club. MLB Network analysts Peter Gammons and John Hart will also report on select camps throughout the series and on MLB Tonight, MLB Network’s signature studio show during the regular season, which returns on Monday, March 1 live at 6:00 p.m. ET.

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On the day that MLB Network is to have its first ever live game broadcast — Brewers at Giants at 7pm ET — the network announced that it has doubled its live games this season and will add a game on Saturday nights, bringing the network’s total number of live games this season to 52. Originally, MLB Network was to only air a live game on Thursday nights. This is pretty awesome news, considering the TV crapfest that is Saturday night. You can now go straight from FOX Saturday Baseball Game of the Week right over to MLB Network for a doubleheader. The first MLB Network Saturday game is April 11 with the Dodgers at the Diamondbacks. With the addition of the Saturday night games, MLB Network will now feature 24 of the 30 MLB clubs within the first seven weeks of the season. MLB Network is picking up the local broadcast feeds with local announcing crews, and MLB Network games will be blacked out in the local markets.

MLB Network live game schedule through May after the jump.

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If you got up early to watch the World Baseball Classic game between China and Japan on Thursday morning, then you, my friend, are hardcore. The rest of us are probably going to catch a few WBC games when it’s convenient, and this weekend should give plenty of opportunities as the tournament begins in earnest. The U.S. will play its first game on Saturday at 2pm ET against Canada in Toronto on ESPN. Here’s the full schedule of WBC action on ESPN, ESPN2 and MLB Network:

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By Ryan

MLB Network’s spring training preview series 30 Clubs in 30 Days will premiere Feb. 20 at 8pm ET. The series devotes an hour to each MLB team, giving viewers an inside look at preparations for the 2009 season with field reports, interviews and a look back at each team’s 2008 season and offseason activity. Each episode also looks back at the best moments in team franchise history, and includes a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of front-office personnel and baseball writers. Reporters Hazel Mae and Trenni Kusnierek will report on-site at each club’s training facility, and an interactive experience will give fans the opportunity to be “virtually interviewed” (and perhaps “virtually hugged”?) by Harold Reynolds.

Complete 30 Clubs in 30 Days schedule after the jump.

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The month-old MLB Network made its biggest talent announcement to date — Bob Costas will join the network in a cable-exclusive multiyear deal. Costas will host original programming and serve as a play-by-play announcer for a number of the channel’s 26 live game broadcasts in 2009.

Costas will remain with NBC Sports for its NFL and Olympics coverage, but will no longer do projects on HBO, such as Costas Now. This move is a perfect fit for both MLB Network and Costas. The network gets one of the game’s preeminent voices and historians, while Costas finally gets to call an MLB game again, something he wasn’t afforded when NBC lost MLB TV rights.

Costas’ first duty for MLB Network will be interviewing Dodgers manager Joe Torre — who’s got an incendiary new book to plug — for an episode of MLB Network Studio 42 With Bob Costas on Thursday night at 8pm ET.

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