MLB dropped the ball with this yr’s Futures Recreation

On Saturday, the 2024 Futures Recreation passed off at Globe Life Area in Arlington, the positioning of this yr’s All-Star Recreation. Nevertheless, 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 midst of a full slate of MLB motion. That is proper, whereas future main league standouts competed on the identical discipline, practically all 30 groups from the American and Nationwide Leagues had been additionally in motion.

Basically, MLB made most followers select between the Futures Recreation or watching their groups play a probably essential mid-July contest.

Even the 2024 All-Star Celeb Softball Recreation acquired 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.

Quite than that includes as we speak’s greatest prospects within the primetime slot, the powers that be determined that followers would quite watch the blokes from “Dude Excellent” attempt to hit a softball thrown slowly to them underhanded.

Moreover, a abilities competitors was held instantly following the Futures Recreation. However, with no possibility to observe it dwell, these fascinated by seeing what occurred should wait till Sunday when MLB broadcasts a tape-delayed model at 10 a.m. ET.

The actual disgrace is that lots of the sport’s greatest prospects did not get the highlight they most likely deserved. On Saturday, 26 of the prime 100 prospects performed within the sport, together with seven ranked among the many prime 20.

If MLB genuinely needed to develop the sport, it ought to have given tomorrow’s stars the correct stage to showcase their abilities. As an alternative, they had been the warm-up act for popular culture influencers, artists and entertainers.