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ESPN just doesn’t need baseball’s volume the way it did 35 years ago, when it would show six games a week, including multiple doubleheaders. NFL draft coverage dominates April, then the NBA and NHL playoffs get them through May and into June. The WNBA eats some of the innings baseball used to in June and July, and is the bridge to NFL preseason coverage. Throw in a hundred hours of Little League World Series games -- which are a lot cheaper to broadcast -- plus a bunch of tennis and golf, and ESPN can fill out its schedule just fine without Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge.
