Share with linkedin. Share using email. Getty Images Fourteen percent of those over 55 said baseball was their favorite sport to watch, compared with only 1 percent for soccer. Also of Interest Fun at the ballpark: Get the biggest bang for your buck.
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They assist the viewer in comparing players to one another and finding out the true strengths that teams have over others. Using these stats as well as new tech that measures things like spin rate and velocity help grow the game, as it expands the scope of how many players can get attention from major league scouts. Well, change is already here. We live in the age of information, where nearly anything can be known at any time by anyone with an internet connection and a smartphone.
Fortunately, most older scouts have since either left the league or been fired in favor of those who support analytics. It is mostly traditional fans that complain about these stats, but those same fans are the market MLB has been pandering to for a long time now. As they move away from supporting those old-school ideals that the game founded itself upon, older fans leave.
According to a survey by Sports Business Journal, Major League Baseball has some of the oldest fans among the major US sports, at an average age of Because MLB is not effective at getting newer fans, and also upsetting older fans by changing the way the game is played on a day-to-day basis, the last 10 years has seen a dropoff in viewership never before seen.
The World Series, which was the biggest stage of baseball in a year that people needed something else to look at other than horrible news, MLB mustered the lowest average viewership in the history of its televised championship games, dropping below an average of 10 million viewers per game for the first time in history according to www.
To be fair, it did have to contend with a heated national election for TV space, but it is just an example of the dropoff in viewers that MLB has found as the game changes, and older fans stop watching. In fact, according to Forbes, none of the top 10 most viewed world series have happened in this century, with the most recent game on the list occurring in in game 7 of the Twins vs Braves game.
These unwritten rules follow much of the same thinking that baseball traditionalists do. You watch your home run, you get beaned next inning. You celebrate striking out a guy in a key situation, the next guy who comes up to bat will get beaned the act of being beaned is when a pitcher intentionally throws a ball at the hitter as well. These rules often punish players for expressing themselves on the field, which just makes games less exciting to watch.
Watching a player celebrate is more fun than watching a benches-clearing brawl, and it is certainly better for the health of the game. So how does the MLB start off the season, after the release of the commercial and the campaign? On April 13th, nearly two weeks after the start of the season, White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson was intentionally hit by a pitch one at-bat after throwing his bat in celebration of a home run.
As well as that instance, in , White Sox Manager and known baseball boomer claimed that his own hitter, rookie designated hitter Yermin Mercedes, was acting unsportsmanlike for hitting a grand slam after his team already had a sizable lead. A rookie was called unsportsmanlike and disrespectful for adding runs to the team. Imagen is an intuitive video management platform that enables sports organizations, media companies and enterprise sectors to intelligently manage their video content with enhanced functionality, control, and insight.
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