2014 Major League Baseball season

This year the Houston Astros hosted the Civil Rights Game on May 30 at Minute Maid Park.

All teams played 20 interleague games, with the majority of match-ups following the divisional rotation in place since 2004.

On August 15, 2013, Major League Baseball announced that it would expand its video review process for the 2014 season, and MLB clubs unanimously approved the new rules on January 16, 2014.

If a manager exhausted his ability to challenge plays during the game and after the beginning of the seventh inning, the umpire crew chief could choose to invoke instant replay on any reviewable call.

Calls that were challenged were reviewed by an umpiring crew at MLB headquarters in New York City, which made the final ruling.

[5][6] On December 11, 2013, the Playing Rules Committee voted overwhelmingly to outlaw home-plate collisions between runners and catchers.

The following teams will wear commemorative patches for special occasions: In addition to ten Cubs throwback uniforms to mark the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field, selected teams wore throwbacks throughout the season: This was the first year of the new eight-year television contracts with ESPN, Fox Sports, and TBS.

As a result, MLB regular season coverage on the Fox network was reduced to 12 weeks beginning in 2014.

[153] Separately, TSN announced its own eight-year deal to expand its MLB coverage.

[154] French-language rights, previously held exclusively by TSN's French-language sister channels RDS and RDS2, will now be split with TVA Sports, with each group airing approximately 70 games per season (TVA Sports also carries additional Blue Jays games acquired directly from the team).