Live From MLB All-Star 2024: League’s Global Events Team Runs to the Rodeo for MLB Draft in Fort Worth Major League Baseball dives into the utmost of immersion for many of its tentpole events: Field of Dreams in Dyersville, IA and Rickwood Field in Birmingham, AL, to name a pair. Opting to go all-in on Texan flair for the 2024 MLB Draft, MLB Global Events is relying on two notable partners — Van Wagner, who’s involved for the first time as the in-venue production arm, and Solomon Group for tech needs — to pull off an entertaining handful of days within the historic Fort Worth Stockyards. “We looked at a couple of sites,” says .

“This one was the most authentic and gave us the best opportunity to have the most fun and produce a really great show.” When the league decided to move their annual Draft away from MLB Network’s studios in Secaucus, NJ, their first attempt at an onsite production during MLB All-Star festivities was in Denver in 2021. For that year, the show was produced from the in the Colorado Convention Center.

In 2022, the event was done outside for the first time at in Los Angeles. In 2023, — a venue packed with NFL-standard infrastructure, a massive footprint to handle a ton of foot traffic, and other advantages — was a proper location that was adjacent to T-Mobile Park. This year, however, MLB Global Events went a different route with Cowtown Coliseum — a more intimate venue with a history that matches the town’s longtime relationship w.