On Monday, Austin Karp at Sports Business Journal reported a tantalizing morsel of baseball news:

Apple TV is emerging as potentially the leading streamer to land some of the MLB media rights currently resting with ESPN […]

A source tells SBJ the offer from Apple would likely be more than what NBC would be eyeing, particularly if that package was focused on simply Sunday night rights.

After MLB whiffed the opening day streams and the news that it was jointly ending its partnership with ESPN, I snarkily suggested that MLB might welcome a call from Apple.

This report gives me hope that Apple may have made that call, and I, for one, would be here for the results—especially if it means bringing full-game, “immersive” baseball to Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s Friday Night Baseball offers a high-quality production (the announcers bug me, though), and the few minutes of baseball I’ve watched in this immersive environment makes me yearn for more in this format.

Karp reports that “no decisions have been made yet” but I’m crossing my fingers Apple and MLB can tie this one up.