Posted Mar 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM UTC

The MLB creates a distraction from last season’s betting scandal by cutting a deal with Polymarket.

Their partnership, reportedly worth up to $300 million over three years, includes giving Polymarket “access to Official League Data from Sportradar, MLB’s exclusive global distributor of data for prediction markets.”

This is after Emmanuel Clase de la Cruz and Luis Leandro Ortiz Ribera were indicted in November over allegedly rigging bets on pitches.

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