Another sport that is pulling kids away that is growing fast is Ultimate Frisbee. My baseball players was more into it in middle school and thought about focusing on it more. He has shifted back to baseball and is ranked fairly high for our state in his position. So having more things to do is pulling kids in all different directions. Some come back some don't.
I think I've commented here before on MLB on TV. Its near impossible to get a game over air TV until the post season. I cut the cord on my TV long ago and I buy enough streaming services already so don't want to add MLB streaming. MLB might get more money from cable channels to stream there games but they are losing a lot of cable cutters in the process. I am encouraged by Amazon starting to stream football games. Hopefully it can carry over to baseball.