If you abide by the old Brooklyn Dodgers adage ‘Wait Til Next Year’, or are looking to plan your next baseball bucket list destination on your quest to visit all 30 major league stadiums, today is for you. Earlier today, Major League Baseball officially released their regular season schedule for 2027 as the Mets prepared for to begin their second half schedule. The Mets will kick things off on the road in Miami against the Marlins on Thursday, March 2d, and play six games away from home before celebrating their home opener at Citi Field against the Giants on Friday, April 2.

Other games and series of note:

• The Mets will host the cross-town rival Yankees over Memorial Day weekend and will head to the Bronx for the Yankee Stadium-hosted portion of the Subway Series immediately after the All-Star break

• The Mets end April and begin May with a six-game road trip against the division rival Braves and Phillies.

• Brandon Nimmo will make his long-awaited return as a visiting player when the Rangers travel to Citi Field on April 23 (the Mets play the Rangers in Texas this season).

• The team’s longest road trip of the year is a ten-game swing that takes them through St. Louis, Arizona, and Los Angeles (NL) in late June and early July, concluding with a four-game set against the Dodgers around July 4.

• The Mets have two nine-game homestands next year: One in June (Padres, Nationals, and Brewers), and one in August (Nationals, Braves, and Cardinals)

• The Mets will play what will likely be their final series in Sacramento in April, as the Athletics are set to move into their Las Vegas home in 2028.

• The Mets head to Fenway Park for three with the Red Sox in July.

• Interleague matchups at Citi Field include the Angels, Blue Jays, Rays, Yankees, White Sox, and Mariners

• The Mets finish the year with a six-game homestand against the Pirates and Cubs, with the final game happening on September 26.

The big question, of course, is whether there will actually be baseball games come March, or at all in 2027. With the labor dispute almost certainly leading to the owners locking out the players, it remains to be seen whether this will spill over into the regular season. With the owners lobbying hard for a salary cap, which appears to be a non-starter for the players, losing games is a real possibility, which would bring us the first non-162 game MLB schedule since 2020.

The current Collective Bargaining Agreement is set to officially expire on December 1. The last work stoppage in 2021-2022 lasted 99 days (December 2 2021 until March 10 2022) and ended with the season being pushed back by a week, although they were able to salvage a full 162-game schedule thanks to double headers and a slight extension of the original schedule.