Baseball 2.0: Updating America’s Pastime

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.