re: How long have the guys in the booth been wired to a player or players on the field?

The ongoing narrative is baseball needs to do a better job of marketing itself to attract young viewers. Market your stars they say.

But when you ask them how to do this they do not really have an answer other than this. Mic'd up players...that's the only answer I've ever heard any of them give.

They say you need to market the stars personalities. So they've been doing this for the last 2-3 years...not sure if it's really moving the needle.