⚾ How to follow the 2021 MLB season using theScore app

Let's face it: After a pandemic-shortened 60-game season in 2020, you're ready for a full 162. And so are we.

Below, we break down how you can best put theScore app to use during the 2021 MLB season, and what you can expect when you subscribe to push alerts. And we also have our own free-agent signing to announce.

Get the news YOU want 🤗

By subscribing to MLB push alerts, you'll be in the loop on everything baseball, and you can do so by tapping on the ⭐ in the top right-hand corner of the MLB section:

From there, you've got four alert options to subscribe to, and it's very important to note that in addition to being able to subscribe to push alerts on a league-wide scale, you can - and should! - do the same for your favorite team.

That's right: you can subscribe to Breaking News, Features, Social, and Video alerts for all 30 MLB teams, in addition to league-wide alerts, if your heart desires. Below, we break down what alerts you'll receive under each category.

Breaking News 🗞️

Mookie Betts traded to the Dodgers? A mammoth extension for Fernando Tatis? When major news drops, you'll get it first from theScore, right to your mobile device. And the system's smart: if and when Francisco Lindor signs a mega-extension with the New York Mets, that news will be alerted to MLB Breaking News and Mets Breaking News subscribers, and users signed up for both will receive only one push alert.

From trades, signings, roster moves, to amazing quotes, and more, theScore has you covered on all angles with Breaking News on a league- and team-wide scale. It's our bread and butter.

Features ✍️

theScore has its own free-agent signing to announce: Travis Sawchik is our new MLB senior writer, and we're thrilled for what he's going to bring to the app this season. The co-author of "The MVP Machine" - a New York Times bestseller - and formerly with FanGraphs and 538, Sawchik brings a wealth of baseball and data knowledge to theScore. By subscribing to MLB Features push alerts, you'll get anything and everything Sawchik writes delivered right to your phone, from original reporting to instant analysis and reaction when major news drops.

There's more: Our tireless team of editors makes sure no stone is left unturned in breaking down the game. Here's a sample of articles that users subscribed to Features notifications received alerts for over the course of March:

• Grading the winter's biggest contracts
• Early 2022 free-agent rankings
• 5 underrated signings we love
• Ranking MLB's top five lineups

Video 🎥

This one's simple: Want to see Giancarlo Stanton and/or Aaron Judge's latest moonshot? Or Nolan Arenado's wizardry at third base (for the Cardinals!)? Every day and night, our editors watch the best baseball has to offer, and pick the best of the best to send to your phone. Remember: You can do this for all of baseball - the best of the best highlights - and your favorite team.

Social 📱

The world is a social place, dear reader, and let's put it this way: our team at theScore is on Twitter all day long so you don't have to be! You're welcome.

In all seriousness: Want to know who's on the cover of MLB The Show 21, or how the coming season played out in simulation on the video game? (Spoiler alert: the Dodgers are going back-to-back.) Want to read Steve Cohen's latest tweets, when he asks to crowdsource a Lindor extension? Want to see Noah Syndergaard and Trevor Bauer go at it on Twitter? Of course you do! And that's why you're going to subscribe to Social push alerts.

You tell us

Lastly, with a full baseball season about to commence for the first time since 2019, you tell us: What do you want to see from theScore's baseball team this year? We'd love to know, and we'll be canvassing the comments section for your feedback. Thanks for reading, subscribing, and making theScore your home for everything baseball.