Your absolutely right on this @donkeypong.. Baseball is losing ground when you compare it to other entertaining sports. The pitcher-catcher relationship, the fielders having good enough communication, are the most areas to look out for to have a good game.. A once most sought out game is becoming more boring, and yet it takes longer to complete the game.
Not even having a major League Baseball athlete appearing in ESPN’s 2017 ranking of the world’s 100 most popular athletes!!! where is the sport heading to. Almost all disciplines have players making this list, how would baseball which attracts huge numbers to watch games miss out.
A lot needs to be done to add value to the game to keep it trending with other sports which are marketting players and reaping big when these players sell out to other clubs. This post @donkeypong could rejuvenise the sport if the heads leading it analysed it and adjusted accordingly.
Small adjustments like having the manager of the team that’s behind in the score to reset the lineup for the ninth inning would bring the entertainment aspect out of the sport as we would have the big name hitters in the same inning. These players alone would get marketted when they get seen taking up roles like this.. thus having something to sell.. And these same players attracting big price tags alone would persuade the supporters to attend the games expecting to watch something different from each game.