If you are a Major League Baseball player, you cannot bet on your sport’s games. But, now that states can legalize sports gaming, the league has accepted $80 million from a company that is betting it can lure fans to bet on these players’ games.
MGM Resorts is the first “official gaming partner of MLB,” the league announced Tuesday. The four-year deal identifies MGM as an “MLB-authorized gaming operator,” grants the company the right to use an official statistics feed and provides exclusive access to what the league called “enhanced statistics.”
For almost a century, baseball stood firm against gambling.