Seattle Mariners to host 2023 MLB All-Star game, sources say

Seattle has been chosen to host the Major League Baseball All-Star game in 2023, sources familiar with the decision told ESPN on Tuesday.

According to sources, plans to bring the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby back to T-Mobile Park, which last hosted it in 2001, when it was known as Safeco Field, are being finalized. MLB declined to comment and said they would not confirm Seattle was the choice.

MLB already had two future All-Star sites on the books: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles next year and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia during the 2026 season. The league moved the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver following Georgia’s passage of new voting laws.

T-Mobile Park, a retractable-roof gem that’s nearly a quarter of a century old but still considered one of the best stadiums in the game, has spent nearly 20 years without a major game, 2001 being also the last year the Mariners made the playoffs.