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Sportradar's Expanded Partnership With Major League Baseball Set To Benefit Fans, The League And Its Own Bottom Line
By Anthony Termini, Benzinga Click here to check out our previous coverage on Sportradar, where we dig deeper into how it merges sports, AI and fan
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[{"type":"text","content":"By Anthony Termini, Benzinga\nClick here to check out our previous coverage on Sportradar, where we dig deeper into how it merges sports, AI and fan engagement!\nDETROIT, MICHIGAN - July 1, 2025 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - The game of baseball has gotten a whole lot more interesting for fans around the world. Earlier this year, Sportradar Group AG (NASDAQ: SRAD), a leading global sports technology company that creates immersive experiences for sports fans and bettors, extended and expanded its decade-long partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB).\n The new 8-year agreement gives Sportradar the exclusive right to distribute MLB's official real-time data across its global client network, which spans 800 sportsbook clients and 900 media companies, creating a runway to continue to innovate and scale new fan engagement opportunities around the world. \nThe depth and breadth of MLB's content combined with Sportradar's industry-leading, AI-driven technologies will bring fans closer to the action through new ways to watch the sport and new betting experiences. \nWhat Sportradar's Partnership With MLB Means For Fans\nThe agreement gives Sportradar the exclusive right to distribute MLB's Statcast data, and audiovisual and media content. The company expects this will result in new betting markets that can be created live and delivered in-game. Beginning with this season that has begun, Sportradar has introduced MLB fans to new in-game betting products, including micro markets and player props.\nMicro markets allow sportsbook operators to offer fans betting opportunities up to every 60 seconds, allowing them to make live wagers on specific events that might happen next in a given game.\nPlayer props are essentially proposition betting, a wager on a specific player detail that might occur during a game that isn't directly related to its ultimate outcome, like the number of strikeouts a pitcher might record or total bases a player might achieve in a game. \nIn addition to these betting opportunities, Sportradar will also collaborate with MLB to create a more immersive, hyper-personalized fan experience. This will come from MLB's dynamic content, including real-time statistics, personalized highlights and MLB Virtual combined with Sportradar's next-generation AI-driven products powered by player tracking data.\nThe resulting virtual reality experienc...