ESPN’s current contract sees it pay US$700 million per year, but although the annual fee is decreasing the new deal sees its cost per game go up.Īccording to Sports Business Journal (SBJ), MLB is looking to sell the midweek games that ESPN has dropped and a deal – likely with a digital media company – is close. Major League Baseball (MLB), Disney and ESPN have agreed a new seven-year domestic broadcast partnership which runs until the end of the 2028 season and is reportedly worth US$550 million per year.īeginning in 2022, ESPN will see its number of exclusive regular season games drop from 90 to 30, retaining the marquee Sunday night package.
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Rojas also mentioned Jeff McNeil and J.D. Drury has started just six MLB games at short. With Javier Baez (back spasms) and Jose Peraza (fractured finger) also out, Brandon Drury is now the Mets’ backup shortstop behind starter Jonathan Villar. Luis Guillorme (strained left hamstring) took batting practice and grounders as well, though he appears to be behind Lindor. Lindor’s next step will be facing live pitching. Rojas, who called Lindor swinging from the left side “a big step,” still declined to put a timetable on his return. He was swinging left-handed when he suffered the oblique injury last month in Pittsburgh. Rojas said that while the Mets will arrive late at the ballpark for Monday’s game to allow for extra rest, they won’t fly starting pitcher Rich Hill to San Francisco ahead of the team.įrancisco Lindor (strained right oblique) continued to make progress toward a rehab assignment, taking batting practice from both sides of the plate.īefore Saturday, he had only swung right-handed on the field. Other teams have done this in the past, too.” But I think they’re doing it more as a joke because there’s no way around it. “I’ve heard the guys throughout the clubhouse say it and repeat it. “I know they’re venting about it,” manager Luis Rojas said before Saturday’s 2-1, 10-inning loss to the Dodgers. Syndergaard, who is still rehabbing from Tommy John surgery and subsequent elbow inflammation but has been traveling with the team, also noted the Dodgers have the same grueling schedule with a home game Monday night, calling it “cruel.” Brilliant!” Noah Syndergaard Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post Take on the 1st place Giants later that evening. “Hey whose dumb f–king idea was it to change game to a night game when we’re travelling to the west coast after,” right-hander Noah Syndergaard wrote in an Instagram post Saturday. Instead of having a day game Sunday to give them a jump on the cross-country trip, the Mets will be playing on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” - delaying their California arrival until well into the early hours of Monday morning before a 9:45 p.m.
Then they got bumped up to play in front of a nationally televised audience Sunday night, ahead of a Monday night game in San Francisco, to the displeasure of at least one Met. The Mets were already staring down a challenging schedule by virtue of facing two of the top teams in the NL West for 13 straight games, starting Friday.
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