MLB stars discuss their 'important' roles in growing baseball to new fans

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred's regularisation changes whitethorn not beryllium loved by shot purists, but the impervious is successful the pudding.

As the magnitude of games has importantly shrunk successful caller years, Major League Baseball saw accrued attendance successful back-to-back years for the archetypal clip since the aboriginal 2010s successful the past 2 seasons.

A Dodgers-Yankees World Series was going to bring successful plentifulness of viewers anyway, but nonetheless, it's each a bully motion for the sport.

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Christian Yelich and Dustin May cognize their roles to turn the game. (IMAGN)

Two of the biggest names successful the crippled cognize that they, too, person a occupation to bash disconnected the tract arsenic well.

"I deliberation it's important to turn the sport," Milwaukee Brewers prima and 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "I deliberation it's important to pull arsenic galore caller viewers arsenic possible, evidently support your existing assemblage and person it beryllium a bully merchandise for everybody to consume. I deliberation if you tin person an interaction similar that arsenic a player, you should bash it."

So, successful bid to bash that, Yelich, Dodgers prima pitcher Dustin May, and Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson teamed up with DirecTV, whose "Nothing On Your Roof" run with the MLB stars is telling imaginable providers that dishes are nary longer indispensable to bask shot games.

Yelich, May and Swanson prima successful the commercialized for the run wherever determination is thing connected their roofs – successful this case, their heads. Each wore bald caps, which is rather the look for the long-haired May.

"I similar my hair, and I person a batch of it, and past they wanted to bash the Nothing On Your Roof, and I thought it was truly chill twist connected things," the 27-year-old May, who began increasing it retired arsenic a inferior successful precocious school, said. "I was excited to beryllium a portion of the commercialized to benignant of boost that they don't request thing connected your extortion to beryllium capable to broadcast baseball."

Don't expect May's existent hairsbreadth to beryllium gone immoderate clip soon, though.

"I decidedly deliberation my woman would beryllium benignant of irritated if I chopped them off," helium said.

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Dustin May warms up during outpouring grooming camp. (Rick Scuteri-USA Today Sports)

"It was a chill conception that I thought was truly unique, and an accidental to person immoderate amusive with a mates of different guys astir the league," added Yelich. "DirecTV did a large occupation with the acceptable and the concept, and I thought everything turned retired awesome. People are capable to ticker baseball, entree Major League Baseball games without having to person satellite. I deliberation it was a unsocial mode for DirecTV to get that connection across, putting america successful bald caps and the Nothing On Your Roof campaign. I didn't truly cognize however I’d look bald and stuff, but I thought that was a chill portion due to the fact that it looked truthful realistic. Once they finished with each the hairsbreadth and constitution stuff, it was a batch of fun."

"So being capable to spouse up with DirecTV with this campaign, amusement shot fans that they tin devour Brewers games, Major League Baseball games without satellites, it was an casual determination to bash the commercial."

Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich follows the formation of his solo location tally disconnected Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Chad Kuhl, Sept. 6, 2022, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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As for continuing to turn the game, "We're present to enactment retired a bully image," added May. "So radical privation to travel backmost and privation to watch."

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