Does Major League Baseball have a "superstar problem"?

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11. We live in a short attention span culture.

People have a hard time focusing on anything for more than a few minutes. This is why super hero action movies out perform all other movies. The action set pieces are fast and intense and there's little down time between them.

Same is true for sports. Those sports where the action comes fast and furious with the game's stars at the center of it all will do better than baseball which has long down times between the action and the stars are not always at the center of the action. For example, Trout and Harper come to bat only 4 times a game. Think about that. The biggest stars in the game only get four plate appearances (on average) per game. That's akin to LeBron James taking only 4 shots or Tom Brady throwing only 4 passes.

I think that we just have to adjust to a world where baseball is the 4th or 5th top sport in the nation.