And sports business experts think that to extend its powerful arm overseas, the league may soon be ready to ramp up its initiatives in those markets, from individual player agreements and overseas TV deals to the implanting of MLB franchises.
Another problem with EMG prosthetics is that patients literally have to retrain their brains to make new associations between muscle movements and their outcomes a shoulder flex could become a grasp motion, for example, while a twitch of pectoral muscle in the chest may extend the artificial arm.