The problem the MLB has is too many contracts and not enough oversight by the league to get the best games on one of the national contracts. I remember a few seasons ago when Shohei was on a path to get most home runs and lead the ERA race, something that hadn’t been done since Ruth. So I wanted to watch Angels games, especially if he was pitching, go looking around the cable dial... nobody nationally showing the Angels game. The best most interesting story to happen to the sport in literally 100 years and they couldn’t get the games away from the Angels’ local broadcaster and onto national TV.
If you’re ESPN you don’t need that in your life. Why should they spend time and money promoting the game when they can’t get the interesting games on their network? Guarantee those games would have had the best of the season, might have even beaten the World Series... except they didn’t get that chance.
If you had the MLB TV package, you would have been able to watch all Angels games live...Only if you did not live near Orange County, CA...Black out rules apply...Yes, MLB TV costs you extra money...Not part of your usual cable package...
I had free MLB TV package last year because I had Tmobile service...