From Lowest-Viewed World Series To ESPN Opt Out To RSNs, How MLB’s Media Landscape Looks

With the Texas Rangers winning the World Series, Major League Baseball officially wrapped up their 2023 season. From a viewership perspective, it created a host of narratives. But, should any of it affect the league’s national or regional media rights deals?

Fans of the Rangers will undoubtedly be giddy today given that they had never won a World Series. The club had spent more than any of the other 29 others in MLB over the last two years, so in many ways it should have been no surprise.