MLB International is a division of Major League Baseball primarily responsible for international broadcasts of games. Prominently, in partnership with DirecTV and MLB Network, it produces and syndicates the All-Star Game, NLCS, ALCS, and the World Series, as well as the Caribbean Series, the Australian Baseball League Championship Series and the World Baseball Classic to broadcasters in over 200 countries, and the American Forces Network for U.S. military troops abroad.
From 1996 until 2003 and again starting in 2010, Gary Thorne served as the play-by-play man for the World Series on Armed Forces Radio and MLB International.
Dave O'Brien provided commentary for MLB International's coverage of the World Series from 2004 until 2009. O'Brien teamed with his usual ESPN partner Rick Sutcliffe on broadcasts of the World Series and the American League Championship Series for MLB International.
From 1996–2002, and since 2010-2014, MLB International broadcasts the League Championship Series alternately, with the American League Championship Series in even-numbered years and the National League Championship Series in odd-numbered years.
Since 2015, Matt Vasgersian has served as the play-by-play commentator; for the 2016 World Series, he was joined by Buck Martinez (television play-by-play of the Toronto Blue Jays, and former color commentator for TBS) on color.
Dave O'Brien and Rick Sutcliffe (All-Star Game, ALCS and the World Series, 2004–2009)
Gary Thorne and Ken Singleton (All-Star Game, League Championship Series and the World Series, 1996–2003)
Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe (All-Star Game, League Championship Series and the World Series, 2010–2014)
Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz (All-Star Game and the World Series, 2015)
Matt Vasgersian and Mark DeRosa (All-Star Game only, 2016)
Matt Vasgersian, Buck Martinez, Lauren Shehadi and Mark DeRosa (World Series only, 2016)
Paul Severino and Joe Magrane (World Baseball Classic Pool A only, 2017)
Rich Waltz and Buck Martinez (World Baseball Classic Pool B only, 2017)
Matt Vasgersian, John Smoltz, and Jon Morosi (World Baseball Classic Pool C, round robin, semifinal and championship games only only, 2016)
Worldwide: Fox Networks Group
Asia: Fox Sports Asia (Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
Australia: ESPN Australia
New Zealand: ESPN Australia
Canada: Sportsnet, RDS, TVA Sports (French)
Caribbean: ESPN Caribbean
China: Liaoning Television, Tianjin TV, Shenzhen TV, North Interactive TV, Shaanxi Television, Jiangsu TV
Europe: beIN Sports (France), Eurosport (Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Sweden), Fox Sports Italy (Italy), Fox Sports International (Netherlands), Canal+ Deportes 2 (Spain), BT Sport ESPN (UK and Ireland), SPORT1 (Germany), Sport 5 (Israel), Viasat Sport East (Russia), Fox Sports Türkiye (Turkey), Arena sport (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)
Japan: NHK, J Sports
South Korea: MBC, Spo TV, MBC Sports+, JTBC3 Fox Sports
Latin America: Fox Sports Latinoamérica, RPC-TV, TV Max (Panama), Televisa (Mexico), Meridiano Televisión (Venezuela), RCN Televisión, Telecaribe, Win Sports (Colombia), ESPN Latin America, ESPN Brazil (Brazil)
Dominican Republic: Telemicro and digital 15
Puerto Rico: WAPA-TV
Curaçao: Telecuraçao
North Africa and Middle East: beIN Sports, Fox Sports Middle East
Taiwan: FTV
United States: During Game 1 of the 2015 World Series, due to a power outage that affected a studio truck producing Fox's domestic coverage of the game, Fox temporarily switched to the MLB International feed of the game in order to restore coverage. The broadcast temporarily used the MLB International commentary, but was later overdubbed with Fox's broadcast team (led by Joe Buck) before the standard Fox Sports production was restored.
