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Is he overrated? Maybe....whats really annoying is that hes almost a cult of personality at this point. People criticize players in other sports for signing with super teams to try and guarantee a ring, but shohei somehow is free from that criticism. Its also annoying how everyone hated the 90s yankees for supposedly buying rings(even though they drafted and developed their core) but everybody is okay with la doing it.

Man, this aged like absoloute crap. Why don't you guys go analyse little league next time?

Highly overated. Case in point: He never carried a team. He has never been in the playoffs until this year. Stats mean nothing unless your carrying the team.

Last weekend the Mets and the Phillies played a crucial 4 game series, the outcome of which could determine who makes the playoffs. Even though I subscribe to MLB TV I was only able to watch one game as MLB put one on Fox, one on ESPN and one on Apple+. I would need a hi end cable subscription and an Apple subscription. MLB has to fix this problem.

I’m surprised these guido idiots can read wow

This sucks

If Otani, who has reached 44 home runs and 46 stolen bases at this point, is overrated, then most players other than Otani are garbage.

As he gets older I’m going to say he will have a lot of injuries. Japanese players have always been injury prone due to being overworked and over practiced throughout their playing time in their high school days. Especially pitchers throwing way too many pitches when they are young.

Get a VPN people. Not strictly legal for this purpose but yeah, get yourself a VPN.

And now as a Phillies fan, I’m paying Xfinity and I’m still losing games to Apple and Roku WTF !!!

I pay for MLB-TV, so as far as I'm concerned, I should be able to watch ANY game I want to. I don't think MLB gives a crap about the fans. Money is what it's all about. They've ruined the game with their super-balls, ghost runners in extra innings, playing games in downpours, etc. anyway.

Cable companies is all about their profits I wanted to watch the Philadelphia Phillies it was on TBS bur was blackout because of Philadelphia Sports Channel which refuses to give the Channel to either of the satellite companies. So why should I get blackout.

I lost interest in MLB this year when new paywalls and blackouts arrived. But I will watch the Mariners if they make the playoffs and are on National TV. Do the sales and marketing people really want to price out their middle class fan base? The list of competing sporting interests this year is quite numerous and makes MLB completely irrelevant. Currently the Euro and Copa America tournaments are ongoing, the Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs just concluded, Wimbleton, Tour de France, and the Olympics are coming up, then the NFL. I don't miss what use to be the national pastime at all due to the new business model.

I live in the U.K. I can watch anything on the MLB app. No blackouts because I am outside the US. The MLB is serving its American customers. Its customers are the local cable companies.

I refuse to get cable TV again. I would rather illegally stream until they come to their senses.

They are extremely frustrating and make little sense in many situations, however you are over simplifying the problem. When a company like Fox Sports pays to broadcast a local game, they want the viewership for advertising and to get an ROI by leveraging that with the Cable TV provider. If people there can circumvent watching on that channel by using the MLB app, then the value of selling the games to networks would plummet. The main issue I have is there are areas in which you dont even have the option to watch on a local cable provider and you get blacked out and it often covers several teams, not just the “home team.”

If you live in Iowa, you are blacked out for 7 teams. That’s crazy. That’s 7 games a night that you can see. Why even bother being a baseball fan.

I haven't watched my home team play in over a decade because of blackouts. Im not paying for a cable package. Ever. Full stop. That means I can't pass on my love of the game to my grandkids, and THAT is the true travesty. Baseball in the US WILL DIE if the current generation of sports fans can't watch their home baseball team! It really is that cut and dry.

I think his fanboys should wait and see before giving him the "GOAT" label. He seems like a good guy though.

If you have an Android device use GPS simulator to make it look like you are anywhere in the country and you can watch the game no matter what your true location is. It's simple I've been doing it for years with MLB I'm an oriole fan in Atlanta but when we play here I cannot watch the games. When I'm in Maryland I can't watch the games unless I have a cable TV subscription there GPS simulator allows me to make it look like I am in Atlanta and can watch the game no flash no muss.

I just watch Mets high lights cause i dont like the high cable prices and the immoral crappy programming! I cut the cord plus they are streaming games and i dont know which channel theyre on half the time? SNY, ESPN, ESPN 2, ch11 pix? Who knows! Luckily they suck!

MLB is currently trying to implement 2 different business models at the same time, which is massively hurting interest in the sport for the sake of short-term MLB profits. The first (and older model) viewed fans as the primary customer of baseball. Ticket sales, vending sales, and merchandise sales used to be how MLB teams made their money while TV/radio was really more of just a way to commercialize the industry. It was a way to convince you to come to the ballpark and spend your money on the team. Teams would also capitalize on ad revenue by selling physical and radio ad space, based upon fan viewership. Ad revenue was really just a quick, easy way to make a little extra money off the top, but it wasn't done to a point where it would annoy fans to the point of not going to the ballpark, because that would be losing a dime to gain a penny in the long run. At some point (probably in the 90s), MLB teams started to negotiate TV and ad deals that were so lucrative that owners started to adjust their focus to please advertisers and cable companies over fans. The real problem, however, is that there was really no adjustment to the way teams priced the experience at the ballpark or the way fans could tune into the game away from the ballpark. If fan viewership is merely going to be used as a leveraging tool for MLB to get billions of dollars a year from TV providers and corporate advertisers, fine, make it easy for fans to tune it or get into the ballpark. But MLB refuses to 100% move to that model in a way that I think the NFL has. They want the best of both worlds: they want to treat fans as a product to be sold to advertisers and TV providers, but also to treat them as customers whenever fans want to comfortably enjoy the game.

Last yr Cubs at Braves in Sept on national tv. Blank screen here 4.5 hours away from Atlanta. The back-up game must have been the Reds also blacked-out here. MLB is never on locally & we had MLB-TV and TH-camTV . We refuse to watch the All Star or any Atlanta Post Season game. The screen will probably go blank when a Brave is At Bat anyway.

This is why minor league baseball has become popular. It’s affordable and there are many ballparks around in the country outside of the big league cities. You can actually afford to take a family to a game and buy concessions, just like baseball used to be.

MLB = More Lousy Blackouts If the crazy rule changes didn’t turn one off to baseball, the blackouts sure will.

I can't watch the Detroit Tigers because Comcast dropped Balley Sports Network

I used to go to 20-25 games between the Angels and Dodgers every season. Since these blackouts have happened, my attendance has fallen to one or two games a season. I have no connection to those teams anymore. .

Sucks. I live in New York and Pittsburgh games are blacked out. 4 hrs away.

Top 3 easy. I have him #1

Not only othani but mike trout too

Greg Maddux or Randy Johnson are my picks cant go wrong wit either one at #1 I can't go wit Clemens because he's a Real D-Bag Human he'll throw a ⚾️ at his own mother's head 😂😂😂

They did a study and it's not true. It's the velo arms race and improper rest rehab and rotation.

Why is every clip they show is before the pitch clock was even created. There is no relation what so ever.

Literally makes no connection between pitch clock and injuries.

How.

I wish my husband would boycott mlb until they get rid of blackouts. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Sunday, we signed up for one of the MLB.TV packages only to find out there were blackouts even if you PAID for a service, so we canceled it. Then we tried to get a VPN yesterday to see if we could work around it. But it was a pain to do with his MacBook and he wound up giving up on it. So today is his birthday and for one of his presents he is currently working on getting directv streaming. It is a shame MLB is doing this. Last time we had directv it was $150 a month, so that’s $1800 a year just to watch baseball. I have ad free TH-cam and that’s all I watch now, and he mostly watches Amazon prime or Hulu when he isn’t watching sports.

Disagree. It’s how hard they’re throwing and the higher spin rates that are causing the injuries

The Regional Sports Network contracts are worth Millions of Dollars per season for the teams so it would be tough to end their exclusively to in market baseball games. Currently only 12 MLB teams have an in market direct Streaming Subscription option. Hopefully this can be extended to more teams in future seasons. Football is played weekly so it is easy to get national contracts. Baseball played daily needs Regional Channels or Regional Sports Networks.

The blackouts are the result of a bygone era of cable television. Mlb cant change that until at least yhe contracts run out tho

MLB needs to get their house in order

Live in Iowa. Can’t watch, twins, cubs, WSox, cards, royals, brewers and maybe the tigers(not sure on their territory). But why in the hell would I ever buy mlb ticket? I can’t watch any game 1/3 of the league plays. And they’re usually playing one of the other 2/3 of teams

I live in Southern Indiana. I'm blacked out on Reds, Cubs, and White Sox (which I wouldn't watch the white Sox If I were paid to.) But one location, blacked out of 3 teams. Ridiculous

currently trying a vpn to get around this mess, makes ZERO sense that I cant watch EVERY game.

I live Jersey tried with a VPN to mask my location.

Just cancel my subscription because of black out

BOYCOTT MLB

The most overrated athlete ever. Madness of the brain. The man is 30 years old, he has never won anything, he even drops out before the playoffs and America gives him the award for the best athlete of the year. Unprecedented stupid hype. Jokic wins NBA ring in strongest era ever sweeps LeBron and Durant with top 3 best playoff stats ever. America is a strange country you put too much value on stupid baseball played even by people with stomachs😄😄