After a thrilling fight to the finish during the regular season, MLB got what it wanted. An AL Wild Card Game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees proved to be ratings gold. Even for a game that didn’t exactly live up to the hype, the numbers were stellar for ESPN. Betw...
The LCS ratings are holding steady despite not having a team from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles — the country's three largest TV markets — in the round for the first time since 2014. The teams with the five best regular-season records are also watching ...
Last year's World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks also tracked theworstTV ratings in the championship series' history, although somereportedlyhad attributed it to the fact that the teams did not have much national appeal. The 2024 regular season was a success for MLB, ...
Many of the teams with the strongest RSN audience also play in shared markets with an NBA team, NHL team or both. In the majority of those markets, the MLB team earns higher TV ratings for games than basketball and hockey. Twelve of the 21 MLB teams in shared markets outperformed the NB...
Though the changes were working,there was trepidation. And with good reason. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts could feel baseball retreating into the mainstream background, and the metrics — from attendance to TV ratings on down — backed it up. ...
After taking a trip behind the scenes of MLB The Show, we now know that player ratings are based on math: Statcast, advanced metrics and other numbers in a game that's full of nothing but. Still, that doesn't mean players won't question their ratings. They're not robots (yet) that...
Myth: Playoff TV Ratings Prove That Baseball Is Becoming Irrelevant At some point in the next month, you’re going to read that an exciting postseason game drew fewer viewers than a football game between two bad teams, or fell far short of the ratings a baseball game in the same series ...
This article reports on the possibility of a third straight year of record TV ratings for the 2006 postseason of the Major League Baseball in the U.S., which could result to a lot of bargaining...
and two of those pitchers might now earn jobs if Weaver indeed needs to miss any regular-season time. Cessa is also a bit of a question mark for workload-related reasons, as he might need to build up his arm since he hasn’t pitched much as a member of Mexico’s World Baseball Clas...
That would leave them some wiggle room if they were willing to carry forward a similar payroll to 2024, but it remains to be seen as to whether that will be the case after a 99-loss season. The club presumably took some revenue hits in terms of ticket sales, TV ratings and advertising...