Since Amazon bought into the YES Network more than a year ago, we’ve speculated about what kind of changes would come to the baseball experience once the country’s most powerful corporation became involved in broadcasting. This week, we got the first real answer, as Amazon will stream 21 Yankee games on the Prime Video platform for regional users this season.
Basically, it works like this: The games are simulcast, so you’ll have the regular YES booth, and if you’re in the archaic “Yankee broadcast region” of New York state, Connecticut, northeast Pennsylvania, and north and central New Jersey, you can access the games for free if you have a Prime membership.