Major League Baseball Inks Streaming Deal in China

Bloomberg: Major League Baseball signed its first national media partnership in China, a three-year deal that gives billionaire Jack Ma-backed Le Sports exclusive rights to live-stream games in the world’s most populous country. The deal fuses two of baseball’s top priorities under first-year commissioner Rob Manfred — cultivating new markets and delivering games digitally. It may also pave the way for China to host regular-season MLB games for the first time.