On Saturday, the 2024 Futures Sport befell at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington, the location of this yr’s All-Star Sport. Nonetheless, most baseball followers might need missed it, and the blame falls squarely on MLB.
For starters, the sport began within the afternoon, 4:00 p.m. on the East Coast, smack dab in the course of a full slate of MLB motion. That is proper, whereas future main league standouts competed on the identical subject, almost all 30 groups from the American and Nationwide Leagues have been additionally in motion.
Primarily, MLB made most followers select between the Futures Sport or watching their groups play a probably vital mid-July contest.
Even the 2024 All-Star Superstar Softball Sport obtained higher therapy, beginning at a way more viewer-friendly time of seven:45 p.m. CT. In the meantime, the occasion solely needed to deal with two West Coast MLB video games.
Fairly than that includes at the moment’s greatest prospects within the primetime slot, the powers that be determined that followers would reasonably watch the fellows from “Dude Good” attempt to hit a softball thrown slowly to them underhanded.
Moreover, a abilities competitors was held instantly following the Futures Sport. However, with no choice to observe it stay, these eager about seeing what occurred should wait till Sunday when MLB broadcasts a tape-delayed model at 10 a.m. ET.
The true disgrace is that lots of the sport’s greatest prospects did not get the highlight they in all probability deserved. On Saturday, 26 of the highest 100 prospects performed within the sport, together with seven ranked among the many prime 20.
If MLB genuinely wished to develop the sport, it ought to have given tomorrow’s stars the correct stage to showcase their abilities. As an alternative, they have been the warm-up act for popular culture influencers, artists and entertainers.
