Major League Baseball has decided to cancel its plans for regular-season games in Mexico City and San Juan, Puerto Rico, next year.

The 2024 season is set to kick off with a unique two-game series in Tokyo on March 18 and 19, featuring Shohei Ohtani’s Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago Cubs. According to the collective bargaining agreement established in 2022, there were intentions to hold games in Mexico City next May, the inaugural Paris games in June, and additional matches in San Juan in September.

However, MLB had already scrapped the Paris games due to difficulties in securing a promoter. Between 2001 and 2018, the league hosted 49 regular-season games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan. Scheduled contests in 2020 for both San Juan and Mexico City were called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During a recent press conference following an owners’ meeting, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stated, “We’re not going to San Juan. We did not have, despite a lot of efforts, an arrangement that made economic sense for us.” He expressed hope for future engagements, noting, “We’d like to do San Juan and what’s available kind of changes year to year, and I hope it all works out in the future.”

In 2023 and 2024, MLB managed to conduct games at Mexico City’s Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú. Manfred remains optimistic, asserting, “I’m sure we’ll be back during the term of this agreement,” referring to the labor deal that extends through the 2026 season. “We had a really, really aggressive international-play undertaking last season. Obviously, we’re opening in Tokyo. Tokyo is really our focus right now for very, very good business reasons.”

Looking ahead, the current labor agreement specifies games in Mexico City in May, London in June, and San Juan again in September of 2026.