The first day of the 2026 draft will take place on the Saturday of MLB’s All-Star Weekend, while the Futures Game will move to Sunday. NBC now has rights to present the draft and Futures Game.
While MLB still is working to iron out complete details for the draft sc
hedule, the league did announce that NBC and Peacock will now present the first hour of the draft. The remainder of day one would be presented by Peacock, NBCSN and MLB Network.
The previous 3-day draft is to be held in 2 days for 2026.
2026 MLB Draft moves to new day and new network
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2 day event in 2025. Sunday and Monday. They did Rounds 1-3 on Sunday, and 4-20 all day Monday...I believe 12 EST until the draft was done.ramfandan wrote: ↑19 Nov 2025 23:15 pm The first day of the 2026 draft will take place on the Saturday of MLB’s All-Star Weekend, while the Futures Game will move to Sunday. NBC now has rights to present the draft and Futures Game.
While MLB still is working to iron out complete details for the draft sc
hedule, the league did announce that NBC and Peacock will now present the first hour of the draft. The remainder of day one would be presented by Peacock, NBCSN and MLB Network.
The previous 3-day draft is to be held in 2 days for 2026.
So this will be the 2nd year for a 2 day draft.
Anyways...I don't like NBC getting anything baseball...or sports for that matter. Sports are my escape, they seem to like to mess with my escape in a one way or another...I'll probably being muting their coverage of games