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The 2021 Major League Baseball season began on April 1, while the regular season ended on October 3. [1] The postseason began on October 5. The World Series then began on October 26 and ended on November 2 with the Atlanta Braves defeating the Houston Astros in six games to win their second title since moving to Atlanta.
A Major League Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed, by league agreement, to play for a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. Each MLB team maintains two rosters: an active roster of players eligible to participate in an MLB game, and an expanded roster encompassing the active roster plus additional reserve players.
Teams may trade only players currently under contract. Trades between two or more major-league teams may freely occur at any time during a window that opens two days after the starting date of the final game of the most recent World Series and closes at 4 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC 2000) on July 31.
Major League Baseball announced the 2021 regular season schedule on July 9, 2020. [68] The Red Sox' schedule, as originally released, spanned April 1 to October 3. [69] [70] The All-Star Game was scheduled for July 13. [71] For interleague play, the Red Sox were scheduled to face National League East teams. [68]
The Yankees underperformed throughout the regular season and were 41–41, with 80 games left to play on July 4. The Yankees went 51–29 in their final 80 games including a season-high 13 game winning streak, their longest winning streak since 1961. On October 3, the Yankees clinched a Wild Card berth with a 1–0 win against the Tampa Bay Rays.
December 1: The most recent Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expired. As a result, MLB owners voted to lock out players starting the next day. It was the first labor stoppage since the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. [92] December 6–9: Winter Meetings (MLB portion canceled) December 9: Rule 5 Draft (postponed) Source: [93]
The 2021 Chicago Cubs season was the 150th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 146th in the National League, and the Cubs' 106th season at Wrigley Field.The Cubs were managed by David Ross, in his second year as Cubs manager, and played their home games at Wrigley Field as members of Major League Baseball's National League Central.
A Toronto Blue Jays home game at Sahlen Field in Buffalo in July 2021. Major League Baseball returned to a full 162-game season for 2021, but some protocols and scheduling changes from the 2020 season remain in place, including shortened doubleheader games, and interleague games being played against teams from the corresponding region. [52]