Major League Baseball and Facebook have come to an agreement to broadcast a blackout-free game every Friday, the Wall Street Journal’s Jared Diamond reports. The agreement will begin this Friday with the Reds-Rockies game.
This marks the second such agreement the league has struck with a social media network. The league has been broadcasting weekly Friday games on Twitter since last year. Those games will now be moved to Tuesday under this new agreement.
The league also announced the revival of its competition committee to advise commissioner Rob Manfred on potential on-field rule changes. Among the members of the 16-member committee are Sandy Alderson, Theo Epstein, Joe Girardi, John Smoltz, Mike Matheny, and Roberto Alomar.
Last year, the old competition committee made changes to the strike zone and the intentional walk.
