MLB companions with GameChanger to develop youth recreation, increase content material

Major League Baseball has a brand new companion in its push to develop youth baseball and softball: the GameChanger app.

MLB on Wednesday introduced a multiyear settlement with GameChanger, the No. 1 rated youth sports app for reside streaming, scorekeeping and staff administration.

“We are excited for all the possibilities that our partnership with GameChanger will bring to our sport’s experience for parents, coaches and players,” MLB vp of baseball and softball improvement David James stated. “As we bring outstanding content to the literal fingertips of our youth baseball and softball community, we see this as a great opportunity to enhance our efforts to build a foundation for growth into the future.”

The partnership will deliver Major League Baseball content material to the GameChanger app and its vast youth sports viewers — there are greater than 13 million younger gamers and 750,000 groups on GameChanger — whereas additionally permitting MLB to characteristic extra youth baseball and softball by itself platforms.

On GameChanger:

The future stars of Major League Baseball are utilizing the GameChanger app as youngsters. Just have a look at the 2023 MLB Draft Class. All of the prime 50 prospects for this 12 months’s Draft used GameChanger on the youth stage.

So it is solely becoming that GameChanger will now be part of the 2023 Draft. During protection of the Draft on July 9, MLB and MLB Network will use highlights and stats from the user-generated youth expertise captured via GameChanger of their Draft broadcast and throughout MLB’s social and digital channels.

There are additionally just a few different key elements of the collaboration between MLB and GameChanger.

GameChanger will work with MLB to assist the league determine youth baseball and softball participation traits and monitor the general well being of the game.

And MLB will use GameChanger to make youth baseball and softball content material and knowledge extra accessible to underserved communities. MLB will present free GameChanger subscriptions to the groups taking part in its RBI Program, Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities.

“Partnering with Major League Baseball is an incredible milestone for GameChanger,” stated GameChanger president Sameer Ahuja. “Since our founding, our team has worked tirelessly to build what is now considered the most dynamic and innovative youth sports video streaming and scorekeeping product ever created. Like MLB, we understand the future of baseball and softball is dependent on the vitality of the game at the youth level. Our shared commitment and passion to grow the sport from its roots makes this partnership a natural fit, and we look forward to working together for many years to come.”

The GameChanger app at the moment ranks because the No. 4 free sports app in Apple’s App Store — proper subsequent to the MLB app, which is No. 3 (the MLB Ballpark app is No. 1). On the GameChanger platform, greater than 36 million video games have been scored, greater than 3 million video games have been video streamed and greater than 29 million auto-generated highlights have been produced. GameChanger is obtainable on iOS, Android and the net.