MLB's international initiative has targeted all the TVs David DeJulius Jersey in China.

That's a growth potential of more than1 billion new fans, the result of a "wide-ranging partnership" announced Wednesday with China-based Le Sports in which major league games will John Wangler Jersey be live-streamed in China for the first time.

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Under the three-year deal, beginning with the 2016 season,four regular-season games per week will be live-streamed, as will the All-Star Game, the Home Run Derby and playoff games including every game of the World Ben Braden Jersey Series.

"If pingpong brought China and America closer together, imagine what baseball will do," saidEric Mika (), senior vice president of LeTV, a division of Le Sports."Busine s can do good while also doing good busine s."

To show how desperatelyMLB wants to establish a lasting presence in China, commi sioner Rob Manfred, chief operating officer Tony Petitti and senior VPof international strategy Chris Park traveled to Las Vegas to Jeremy Clark Jersey make the announcementat the high-profile Consumer Electronics Show.

"China is a crucial frontier for the development of baseball," Manfred said in a statement Dymonte Thomas Jersey (). "Our new, prominent place on Le Sports platforms both reaffirms and expands our commitment to growing the game in China."

MLB established an office in Beijing in 2007and has emphasized growth of the game and player development at the gra sroots level. Those programs hit a milestone last summer when the Orioles signed Wilton Speight Jersey 19-year-old infielder Itchy Xu.