Baseball 2.0: Updating America’s Pastime
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English - August 06, 2019 15:21 - 1 hour - 114 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSports interview entrepreneurship business health leadership news comedy entrepreneur culture politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ariel Kelman – Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Amazon Web Services
Frank Marcos – Product Manager, Scouting Technology, LBi Dynasty
Chris Young – Vice President, On-Field Operations, Initiative & Strategy, MLB
Joe Posnanski – National Columnist, The Athletic
Ben Lindbergh (Moderator) – Writer, The Ringer
Baseball has been a constant through the years with limited innovation while the world of sports shifts around it. Many MLB teams led the analytics movement at the beginning, but the game has been tethered to tradition. Despite recent efforts to make the game faster and more fun, baseball has struggled to keep pace with the NBA and the NFL in terms of TV rating and share of fan attention. So what changes can be made to ensure baseball stays America’s Pastime? How will baseball be played 5, 10, and 20 years down the road? Some of the most analytical and creative baseball minds will debate what the MLB product should look like in the future as it struggles to separate from the past.