For the first time since the pandemic, MLB held Players Weekend in 2024. It’s back for 2025, as the league confirmed MLB Players Weekend will return later this summer. Here’s a look at when it’ll happen, plus an explainer on what it exactly entails.
When is 2025 MLB Players Weekend?
The 2025 MLB Players Weekend event will run from August 15-17, 2025, and will encompass all games held over the three days.
It lines up roughly when Major League Baseball held it last year. During the 2024 campaign, Players Weekend ran from August 16-18, 2024.
What is it?
Players Weekend is an event that allows players to express not just themselves but also allow them to honor individuals close to their lives and baseball careers.
Per the league itself, the event has three central tenants: off-field interests, causes, and appreciation. It’s designed to celebrate players’ individual hobbies, charitable work, and special friends and/or family members that’ve helped make them the players they are today.
Players are allowed to use special custom gear during the event, like the pencil bat Bryson Stott used several years ago in the Little League Classic.
While this specific example didn’t take place during Players Weekend, it’s worth noting the 2025 edition of the Little League Classic will cap off the weekend.
When did it first start?
The first MLB Players Weekend took place in 2017.
However, it looked differently now, compared to when it first started. From 2017-19, teams allowed MLB players to wear special jerseys with nicknames on the back, rather than their last names.
This tradition, though, ended when Major League Baseball resurrected the concept in 2024.
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