Major League Baseball has scrapped plans to play regular-season games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Mexico City next year, according to Rob Manfred.
The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers will still open the 2025 season with two games in Tokyo, but those will be the only international games on the schedule next year.
\"We\'re not going to San Juan. We did not have, despite a lot of efforts, an arrangement that made economic sense for us. We\'d like to do San Juan and what\'s available kind of changes year to year, and I hope it all works out in the future,\" Manfred said. \"... I\'m sure we\'ll be back (to Mexico City) during the term of this agreement. We had a really, really aggressive international-play undertaking last season. Obviously, we\'re opening in Tokyo. Tokyo is really our focus right now for very, very good business reasons.\"
The \"agreement\" Manfred referred to is the current collective bargaining agreement, which expires after the 2026 season.