MLB.com Layoffs

Why would they have layoffs with baseball teams worth billions and baseball worth billions? I feel for everybody and wish you all the best, but ? What is going on here?

 

I thought that was confusing too, especially with baseball starting.

 

I'm thinking the verdict has been read about how high digital advertising can go - and it has peaked no matter what the site.

 

It will be far easier and far far far cheaper for MLB to turn the site into a content aggregator of the material produced daily by 30 different media relations staff than to pay more than a few writers and editors to generate original content.

 

It'll be a bloodbath when the current CBA expires. No need for content when there's a year-long strike or lockout.

 

I don't see this every being the case. Media relations guys are already overwhelmed. They don't have time to produce quality content for the web. I kind of view the MLB.com writers as PR people anyways, even though I know that's not their titles.

 

I'm sorry for not making my position clearer. MLB.com will, IMO, start collating and reproducing the material individual media staffs already produce.

 

For straight baseball analysis/information I find the stuff written by MLB.com team writers to be well done.

 

Could teams require media outlets to make their content available to MLB.com as a condition of getting a press pass?

 

I don't see how. That's pretty close to extortion.

 

Why would they need to trade press passes for content? There are lots of aggregators out there already who I thought did not pay. How do they survive?