MLB reaches deals...with streaming providers Apple, NBC

There was a time when you knew to flip it to channel 60 to catch the Cincinnati Reds game on FS-Ohio. You could then flip it over to channel 56 for a live FOX national broadcast of a New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox game every single Saturday afternoon, and then motor over to channel 24 to watch ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecast.

All that power in one thumb, one cable television remote.

As cord-cutting continues to alter the way in which we consume baseball from the confines of our homes - when it exists, that is - both the consumer and the providers are having to alter the ways in which they dole out their game telecasts. The rise of MLB.tv as a primary streaming service began things,…