Exclusive agreement paves the way for CME FSPIÂ baseball futures
CHICAGO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FutureSports, the independent index administrator transforming professional and college sports statistics into rules-based, benchmark financial indexes, today announced an agreement with Major League Baseball (MLB) to create first-of-their-kind indexes on baseball team performance. Under the agreement, MLB will provide FutureSports with Official League Data that the company will use to create new broad-based CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI) on each of the 30 MLB clubs.
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