{"id":54007,"date":"2022-07-01T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-network-premieres-new-commercials-featuring-stars-tim-anderson-mike-trout-to-shine-more-light-on-upcoming-draft"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:57:24","slug":"mlb-network-premieres-new-commercials-featuring-stars-tim-anderson-mike-trout-to-shine-more-light-on-upcoming-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-network-premieres-new-commercials-featuring-stars-tim-anderson-mike-trout-to-shine-more-light-on-upcoming-draft","title":{"rendered":"MLB Network Premieres New Commercials Featuring Stars Tim Anderson, Mike Trout to Shine More Light on Upcoming Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the 2022 MLB Draft was coming up soon? Yeah, me neither.But MLB Network is trying to change that, looking to increase awareness for the three-day event from July 17-19 with a series of commercials. The commercials feature two of the sport&#8217;s biggest stars: Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout.MLB Network also wants to use these two examples to try and convince prospective draft picks to actually attend the draft. Both Anderson (2013) and Trout (2009) were first-round picks by their respective clubs. They were each in attendance to hear their names called by former league commissioner Bud Selig and go up on stage.&#8220;Baseball is a true amateur draft in that amateur meaning in sport, no one knows who our players are most of the time,&#8221; MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds told Sarah Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Times. &#8220;[Anderson and Trout] are shining examples for why to go to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the 2022 MLB Draft was coming up soon? Yeah, me neither. But MLB Network is trying to change that, looking to increase awareness for the three-day event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,19,202,58],"class_list":["post-54007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-entertainment","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}