How many games are there in a regular MLB season?

The schedule for interleague play comprised 84 three-game series in each season from 1998 to 2012, divided as six series (18 games) for each of fourteen AL teams and as many as six for each of sixteen NL teams. read more

The Major League Baseball regular season consists of 162 games per team. That is not including any post season play. As of 2016, there are talks of shortening the season to a possible 154-game season. read more

"After the first expansion, each team had nine rivals rather than seven, and the 154-game season made for bad math," MLB's official historian, John Thorn, explains. To play 22 games against each rival would require an 198-game season, so MLB settled on 18 games per rival for nine rivals, for a total of 162 games. read more