We are inching towards March, and that can mean only one thing: baseball is in the air. On Wednesday Feb. 26, the first games of spring training were played. Hallelujah! I am lucky enough to live in the home market area of my team, the Atlanta Braves.¹ However, as many baseball fans do not live in their team’s home market, watching your team can be a bit of a hassle. Fear not, there are many ways to watch!

Aereo

The cheapest, yet not 100% assured way to watch your out of market team is Aereo. There are some caveats to this method though. If you are unfamiliar with Aereo, here is how we described it a few days ago:

In a nutshell, Aereo collects free, over-the-air television signals in all the major markets – currently New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Baltimore, San Antonio, and Denver – and transmits these signals to a user’s cloud DVR.

So it looks like there is only the possibility of watching the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Marlins (if you are one of their 15 fans), Astros, Rangers, Tigers, Reds, Orioles, Nationals, and Rockies. Further, you can only watch these teams if their games are broadcast on the free over-the-air channels. While Aereo is not the most sure-fire way to watch your team, it is worth checking out as it is $8 a month.

MLB.TV

MLB.TV is awesome.² A subscription to the service allows users to, “Watch every out-of-market regular season game LIVE, Plus over 200 Spring Training Games.”³ The only problem, however, is that you can not watch in market games. That is to say that if you live in, say, Chicago, you can not watch the Cubs or White Sox through MLB.TV. This is by far the most versatile of the methods as it is compatable with a huge range of devices:

• Xbox 360^ / Xbox One
• Sony Playstation® 3 / Sony Playstation® 4
• Apple TV
• WD TV
• Roku
• Panasonic
• Samsung
• LG
• Sony Blu-ray
• Windows
• TiVo⁴

The only real downside is that the service costs between $109.99 – $129.99 depending on your subscription level.

MLB At Bat

MLB At Bat is really more of a companion application to MLB.TV, but it provides more than enough content to help you keep up with your team. Though the app does not allow for live streaming of games, it does have tons of features. You can:

• Listen to live home and away radio broadcasts
• Universal support for At Bat 14 subscribers, accessible on iPhone, iPad and other supported smartphones and tablets
• Follow batter-by-batter action for every game
• Breaking news, schedules and interactive rosters and player stats for every team
• Sortable batting, pitching and fielding statistics
• Classic games video archive featuring dozens of baseball’s legendary games

The app displays the game in a video-game like format that is actually pretty cool (above). At Bat comes in much cheaper than the MLB.TV package with a $19.99 price tag for the entire 2014 season. But there is no live streams.

If you live behind enemy lines, fear not. There are ways to watch your team.