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The following are the baseball events of the year 2009 throughout the world.
January 1: Major League Baseball will launch its own channel MLB Network on cable and satellite systems in the USA, the last major American sports league to do so.
January 5-15: Arbitration filing period.
January 19-20: Exchange of arbitration figures.
February 1-21: Arbitration hearings period.
March 2-11: Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players