About r/baseball
In its own words:
The BEST subreddit for America's pastime: baseball. The focus is mainly on MLB, but posts about other leagues and levels are welcome! Official r/baseball Discord: https://discord.gg/rbaseball Mike Trout For the best user experience, we recommend disabling the Reddit redesign.
Community guide
r/baseball (#323, about 3.2 million) is a major baseball community focused on MLB (other leagues welcome). Rules demand civility and high-quality content across titles, breaking news, Twitter/X posts, video highlights, performance posts, post-series threads, elimination/clinching posts; ban spam/ads; follow paywall and in-season vs off-season guidelines. Text/Link (~136.3 ppd).
Baseball with quality bars
MLB-centered talk; low-quality spam and ads fail.
Highlights and news standards
Video highlights, breaking news, and clinching posts have explicit quality rules; mind paywalls.
Practical pointers
Mixed text/link/video/image; News/Analysis flairs in samples.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 7, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 3,635 subscribers (+0.11%). It sits just behind r/mexico (#322) and ahead of r/frugalmalefashion (#324) in our ranking.
What sets r/baseball apart
Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 44.2 comments per post, roughly 3.2× the typical big subreddit (14.0). For its size it is unusually busy: about 42.3 new posts a day per million members, more than 91% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.68% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 91% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/baseball went up from 3,200,120 to 3,221,882 subscribers (+21.8K, +0.68%). That is about 495 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/baseball talks about
Looking at the titles of 621 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “mlb”, “series”, “world”, “brewers” and “team”. Other frequent themes are game, season, players, mlbtr, win and free. Recurring phrases include “world series”, “salary cap”, “free agent” and “pat murphy”. By format, 36% are text posts, 23% are links and 17% are videos.
Popular post flairs: News (80), Image (77), Opinion (50), Video (44), Analysis (33), History (22).
Activity and best time to post
r/baseball gets about 140 new posts a day. The public archive holds 849,946 posts and 37,576,053 comments in total, about 44.2 comments per post.
Rules of r/baseball
The moderators of r/baseball list 14 rules. In short:
- Be Civil to Others
- Create High-Quality Content
- Post with Clear and Satisfactory Titles
- Create High-Quality Breaking News Posts
- Create High-Quality Twitter/X.com Posts
- Create High-Quality Video Highlights
- Create High-Quality Game Performance Posts
- Do Not Spam
- Do Not Use r/baseball to Advertise
- Create High-Quality Post-Series Threads
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/baseball and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/baseball have?
r/baseball has 3,221,882 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #323 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 21,762 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/baseball?
r/baseball was created on Sep 7, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Sep 19, 2008.
How active is r/baseball?
Very active: r/baseball gets about 140 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 849,946 posts and 37,576,053 comments. In a sample of 621 recent posts we counted 354 different authors.
What is r/baseball about?
The community describes itself as: “The BEST subreddit for America's pastime: baseball. The focus is mainly on MLB, but posts about other leagues and levels are welcome! Official r/baseball Discord: https://discord.gg/rbaseball Mike Trout For the best use…” Recent post titles often mention mlb, series, world, brewers and team. Most posts are text posts (36%).
Is r/baseball safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/baseball as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/baseball?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/baseball accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 14 posted rules, starting with: “Be Civil to Others”; “Create High-Quality Content”; “Post with Clear and Satisfactory Titles”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/baseball?
Communities with similar topics include r/mlb (3.1M), r/sports (22.1M), r/leagueoflegends (8.5M), r/PremierLeague (5.1M) and r/spotify (3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/baseball.