Big Changes Ahead For Minnesota Twins Fans To Watch Games This Season

It's been a rough couple of years for Minnesota Twins fans looking to follow their favorite team on TV.

The well-documented financial struggles of the company that owns the TV home of the Twins (Diamond Sports) have led to a lot of questions.

In addition to that, a lengthy contract dispute through a sizable chunk of last season over the carriage agreements between Diamond and two major cable providers left a lot of Twins fans across Minnesota without the ability to watch their team for much of last year.

At this point, fans are probably a little frustrated and just want to know how they can enjoy some Twins baseball.

The team announced last fall that the league would be taking over the production and distribution of TV broadcasts for the Minnesota Twins and a few other MLB teams. This change would provide a new streaming option and create changes for people watching games via cable or satellite, too.

When they announced this last October, there weren't many specifics about how this would change things for cable/satellite viewers or about the new streaming option, being called Twins.TV. With Spring Training 2025 on the way soon, the team announced a lot more information.

What is Twins.TV?

Twins.TV will be a "direct-to-consumer" streaming option to watch games without blackouts for fans in Minnesota, Western Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota, as noted in the areas in red above.

Except for national broadcast games on platforms like ESPN, FOX, or AppleTV, you'll be able to watch Twins home and away games on this new service, which will be accessible on smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TV devices.

How much will Twins.TV cost?

As the team announced during TwinsFest, the new streaming option will be $19.99 per month, or you can buy the whole season for $99.99.

In addition, season ticket holders can get the full season for half off the normal season price for the service.

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You'll be able to sign up for the service starting in February, but you can get on an email list to get notified by the team if you'd like as well.

What about watching Twins games on cable or satellite?

As the Twins.TV FAQ page explains (and was reiterated by the team with the streaming announcement), they are still working on finding a cable/satellite home for Twins.TV.

That means games will be made available for subscribers to cable or satellite packages who have been able to watch Twins games in the past, but where you're watching the games may be different.

FanDuel Sports Network North (formerly Bally Sports North, and FOX Sports North before that) will no longer be producing the games. As a production of Major League Baseball, it is likely you'll have to tune to a new cable/satellite channel to catch the games.

Who is going to be on-air talent broadcasting Twins games?

With all of these changes, you might wonder who will be the people calling the games on TV. As the Twins shared earlier this month, it will be a lot of names you're already familiar with.

Cory Provus will do play-by-play, while former Twins stars will play the role of analyst. Justin Morneau will be the main analyst for games, but LaTroy Hawkins, Glen Perkins, Trevor Plouffe, and Denard Span will also play a role as analysts during games.

In addition, Tim Laudner and Katie Storm will be the pregame and postgame hosts, and Audra Martin will be the in-game reporter.