Socially Awkward to Socially Active: MLB Online
This is the first of four stories on Major League Baseball and social media. Full disclosure: Major League Baseball Advanced Media employs FanGraphs contributor Paul Swydan, who wrote this series. The...
View ArticleMLB Expands Its Social Media Footprint
This is the second of four stories on Major League Baseball and social media. You can read the first story here. Full disclosure: Major League Baseball Advanced Media employs FanGraphs contributor Paul...
View ArticleSocial Media Expansion: Teams Get in the Game
This is the third of four stories on Major League Baseball and social media. You can read the first two stories here and here. Full disclosure: Major League Baseball Advanced Media employs FanGraphs...
View ArticleLooking into the Crystal Ball: MLB’s Social Media Future
This is the last of four stories on Major League Baseball and social media. You can read the first three parts here, here and here. Full disclosure: Major League Baseball Advanced Media employs...
View ArticleNew Protective Hats Raise Questions Regarding Usefulness
Though it can sometimes occur, we do not watch baseball for the violence. That is reserved for football — the bone-crushing hits, the gruesome tackles, the cringe-worthy collisions. Baseball is...
View ArticleThe Story of SABR101x
Sabermetrics enters the world of Massive Open Online Courses through Boston University.
View ArticleMLB & Fox Reportedly Agree on (Partial) In-Market Streaming
Major League Baseball’s arcane – and many would say horribly outdated – television blackout policy has long been a source of frustration for baseball fans. As most readers are by now well aware, under...
View ArticleThe Impending Battle Over the Future of Televised Baseball
Next week, in a federal courtroom in New York City, the future of televised baseball will be at stake. On one side, attorneys representing baseball fans at-large will contend that MLB’s existing...
View ArticleMLB Settles TV Lawsuit, Preserves Blackouts
Considering the potential ramifications of a victory by the plaintiffs in the Garber v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball lawsuit, the odds always favored Major League Baseball eventually reaching...
View ArticleExamining SMT’s Lawsuit Against MLBAM
On Thursday, a company called Sports Media Technology (“SMT”) sued MLB Advanced Media (“MLBAM”) over Statcast. The complaint in the lawsuit is 92 pages long, and I read it so you don’t have to. But if...
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