Minnesota Twins Free TV Schedule Announced

This season has ushered in a new era for the Minnesota Twins. No, things are not off to a good start with the team sitting at 0-4, entering Tuesday’s matchup vs the Chicago White Sox. They’ve already been swept by the St. Louis Cardinals and are now down a game vs a team that finished with the worst record in baseball history last season.

But for what it’s worth, for the first time in quite a while, any Minnesota Twins fan with $19.99 per month to spare can watch games, including those in the midwest who have been boxed out from TV broadcasts for years due to blackout restrictions affecting enormous chunks of Twins Territory.

Twins.TV launch has gone… pretty well

2025 is the first season of Twins.TV, which launched (poorly) on Opening Day. Thankfully, the MLB quickly worked out the kinks and games have mostly operated without blunder so far. The newly available streaming service can be purchased directly through the MLB app or Twins.TV on your browser, for those who want to stream it that way.

Major League Baseball, which owns and operates the new service, has also reached agreements with multiple large cable, satellite and all-inclusive streaming providers, to offer in one or more of their channel package options for subscribers.

But for months now, the Minnesota Twins have teased a package of games during the 2025 regular season that will be broadcast free to anyone with an old-school TV antenna or an internet connection. That’s right, there are still some channels you can get for free, How? Well, via old-school “over-the-air” local broadcast TV, of course.

It’s true, you can still connect to multiple TV channels using only an antenna. Yup, the old school rabbit ears antenna. You can also purchase newer models that connect via HDMI at Walmart for cheap (and no subscription).

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With over-the-air antenna, you can now get HD picture for channels 2 (PBS), 4 (CBS), 5 (ABC), 9 (FOX) and 11 (NBC) with an old school TV antenna. The stuff your ancestors used to watch television. Many of these channels are also offered free via live stream, whether via their own apps and websites or other free streaming platforms that rely on an ad-revenue only business model, as opposed to needing paid subscriptions.

10-game Minnesota Twins package coming to local TV

It’s taken a bit longer for the Minnesota Twins to finish off negotiations with the local TV stations. But on Tuesday, they announced the exclusive winner of the over-air Twins contract sweepstakes. FOX9, which will carry 10 total games this summer, every Tuesday starting April 15 (two weeks from today).

Minnesota Twins, Fox 9 and Gray Media announce 10-game, free over-the-air television package. pic.twitter.com/gedBFXO4ac

— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) April 1, 2025

The first game is against the New York Mets. That’s a notable contest as talented outfielder Juan Soto signed a $765 million contract with them this offseason.

There are three divisional matchups as part of the package. Minnesota will play the Chicago White Sox on both April 22nd and September 2nd. May 20 is a tilt against the Cleveland Guardians. The rest of the schedule is really good too, and includes matchups vs the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees.

Aside from the Yankees game, each matchup has a 6:40 pm start time. They all feature pregame shows to kick off at 6 pm. How that will work for the New York game, which is scheduled to start at 6:05 pm, remains to be seen.

Free broadcasts a positive for MN Twins fans

For a franchise looking to generate good will with it’s fanbase, this is a nice offering. Fans unwilling to drop the necessary coin for the new TwinsTV packages can give the production a test run for free. With the first offering coming just two weeks from today, Minnesota can premier the product and hope to earn additional subscribers.

Of course in order to generate significant fan interest, Rocco Baldelli and his team will need to start winning. They open the home slate at Target Field on Thursday April 3 at 3:10 pm against the Houston Astros.

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Minnesota has two more games this week against the Chicago White Sox. Last season they went 12-1 with a +40 run differential against the Pale Hose. Starting with a 9-0 drubbing wasn’t a good look, but the expected worst team in baseball still represents a potential get-right opportunity.

The Twins need fans to tune into their action. A lackluster sale process and poor product can’t be part of the equation. On field production must be the draw to make any of the television undertakings matter.