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• Poll: Is Geographic Realignment A Good Idea?
Commissioner Rob Manfred created quite a bit of buzz around the baseball world last week when he made comments on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball last weekend that suggested the league’s desired expansion to 32 teams could be coupled with a dramatic realignment of MLB’s current structure. “I think if we expand, it provides us with…...2025
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• ESPN and MLB combined on a broadcast that was stunning — for all the wrong reasons

While boasting at the Little League World Series that MLB remains committed to doing right by kids, Rob Manfred was unable to provide specifics....2025
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• How MLB realignment might impact the Braves

This past Sunday night, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made on-the-air comments that brought expansion back to the national baseball conversation, and with it, the idea of geographical realignment. By the time the league expands – most likely by two teams – it will have been 30 years or more since the last time MLB expanded […]...2025
• How would geographical realignment affect the Rockies?

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred caused quite a stir in the baseball world over the weekend when talking about a window into the future concerning expansion. He hopes to have the wheels set in motion for expansion by the end of his term in 2029, adding two expansion teams to allow both leagues to […]...2025
• Expansion and Realignment
One of the things I like about Rob Manfred is that he floats ideas about changes to the game to get feedback, both negative and positive. The latest is adding two teams and realigning the leagues and divisions along geographic lines. I wrote a piece on this for Baseball Prospectus back in 2007: The first […]...2025
• Mets Broadcaster Blasts Rob Manfred’s Geographic Realignment as ‘Total Destruction of Traditions’

A longtime MLB broadcaster ripped commissioner Rob Manfred over his proposed geographic realignment plan....2025

• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota

Nick Wosika-Imagn Images The Twins had themselves a fire sale. Winners and losers at the Trade Deadline. The Speedway Classic didn’t go as planned. And other baseball news. Good morning. The Twins traded 40 percent of their roster at the trade deadline. Bob Nightengale looks at the carnage in Minneapolis and the decision to trade Carlos Correa. Plus some assorted thoughts on the trade d...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm?

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Emmanuel Clase is placed on leave amid a gambling scandal. The trade deadline is off to a slow start. Bryce Harper and Rob Manfred face off. Good morning. Monday morning, I awoke to an alert on my phone that Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase was placed on non-disciplinary paid leave amid a gambling scandal. I then opened my email inbox where I found a pr...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 29, 2025

Thomas Shea-Imagn Images Seth Lugo likes us, he really likes us! Seth Lugo talks about wanting to stay in Kansas City. “After being here for a year and a half, me and my family just fell in love with the city,” Lugo said, with his wife, Amanda, sitting in the front row of the press conference and the two Lugo boys, 5-year-old James and 3-year-old Myles, trying their very best to remain at...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2354: Nothin’ But News

Well, almost nothin’. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ichiro Suzuki’s Cooperstown induction, Nick Kurtz’s four-homer game, Aaron Judge’s injury (and Cal Raleigh’s MVP candidacy), Bryce Harper’s showdown with Rob Manfred, Emmanuel Clase’s implication in baseball’s brewing pitch-fixing scandal, Royals, Tigers, Braves, and Yankees trades, and ...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts survey: Which starting pitcher(s) would you like to see the Cubs trade for?

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images One of them is pictured. But maybe you want someone else. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Today is MLB’s All-Star Game. It also means just 16 days remain until M...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft

Ethan Holliday | Steve Sisney/For The Oklahoman / USA TODAY NETWORK The MLB Draft is this weekend, and we have what you need to know. The trade deadline is approaching. The Yankees and Dodgers look vulnerable. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The MLB Draft starts this Sunday night and here’s all the basic information on the event. Melissa Lockard also has a more in-dep...2025
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• Bobby Witt Jr. and Kris Bubic make All-Star Game

Your 2025 Kansas City Royals All-Stars | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Maikel Garcia and Carlos Estévez snubbed Two Royals were named to the 2025 MLB All-Star Game rosters, which were revealed this afternoon. Unsurprisingly, Bobby Witt Jr. made hit second All-Star Game. What more can be said about the Royals franchise star? He’s off to a “slower” start than last year at .292/.344/.493 ...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2343: Say it Ain’t Low, Luis

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how many members of the All-Star Celebrity Softball Game roster they have heard of, honorary all-stars, and velocity spikes preceding arm injuries, then discuss an investigation concerning possible pitch-fixing by Luis L. Ortiz, a federal civil rights complaint about the Dodgers’ DEI policies, and Rob Manfred’s pitch to […]...2025
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• Outside The Confines: New White Sox ownership. Eventually.

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It’s been a long time coming, but it’ll be still be a long time happening. Happy Friday, everyone. The big news around baseball right now is that the White Sox might finally be seeing a change in ownership, but it won’t be happening any time soon. The plan will see billionaire Justin Ishbia take a controlling stake in the Sox by... 2029. So while hope ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Tigers on the prowl

Photo by Allan Dranberg/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Rockies are the worst team in baseball, maybe ever. The Tigers have the best record in baseball. A look ahead to the trade deadline and draft. And other MLB news. Good morning. Russell Dorsey explains why the Rockies situation this year is much worse than last season’s White Sox, and how things are kind of looking up for the So...2025
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• Blanco Killed
Former utility player Tony Blanco died in the nightclub disaster in the Dominican Republic along with Octavio Dotel. Blanco was 43 years old. “Major League Baseball is deeply saddened by the passings of Octavio Dotel, Tony Blanco, Nelsy Cruz, and all the victims of last night’s tragedy in Santo Domingo,” commissioner Rob Manfred said in […]...2025
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• Rob Manfred issues statement on tragedy at nightclub in Dominican Republic

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has issued a statement confirming some of the tragic news that came out of the Dominican Republic on Tuesday....2025
• This Day in MLB History: Freddie Freeman signs with the Dodgers

Photo by John McCoy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The official end of the Freddie Freeman era in Atlanta MLB History 1900: Ban Johnson announces that an American League team will be placed in Chicago to ensure the stability of the league. In an agreement with National League officials, the AL club will be placed on the south side of the city and will be called the Chicago White Stocking...2025
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• Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• Yogi Berra, MLB Icon and War Hero, Was One of Sports' Most Unforgettable
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"MLB commissioner Rob Manfred defends decision to reinstate Pete Rose, others: 'A ban on working in the game'"

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"Former New York Mets general manager Billy Eppler was suspended through the 2024 World Series on Friday by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who concluded he directed the team to fabricate injuries to create open roster spots."

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"MLB has extended commissioner Rob Manfred through January 2029, which puts him in line to guide the owners through another round of collective bargaining."

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"Rob Manfred: He doesn't hate baseball; he wants to save it"

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"Seven-inning doubleheaders and starting extra innings with runners on second are likely to be dropped by MLB after this season, commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday."

2020
"Pete Rose is again asking commissioner Rob Manfred to take him off the league's ineligible list, citing his lack of punishment for Astros players in the sign-stealing scandal."

2019
"Commissioner Rob Manfred is now threatening to walk away completely if…"

2018
"Major League Baseball will implement new pace of play rules for the 2018 season, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Monday, but there will be no pitch clock this season."

2017
"Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel has been suspended without pay for the first five games of the 2018 regular season by Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Saturday afternoon before Game 4 of the World Series."

2016
"Major League Baseball hopes to play its first regular-season games in London in 2017, Commissioner Rob Manfred said in an interview with The Associated Press."

2015
"MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says he has received a formal request from Pete Rose asking that his lifetime ban be lifted and that he will consider the all-time hits leader's request."

2014
"Rob Manfred has been given a five-year term as baseball commissioner when he succeeds Bud Selig in two months."

• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota
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• Today in White Sox History: August 2

On this day 89 years ago, Jackie Hayes capped the second-biggest comeback in White Sox history with a 12th-inning single. | Sporting News via Getty Images Down 10-1, the South Siders rally to win, and sweep a doubleheader 1901 A 7-0 win over Detroit made it three straight shutouts for the White Sox. The Tigers were the victims of all three whitewashes: Clark Griffith’s 2-0 win on July 31, ...2025
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• ‘Not All That Significant’ – MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Brushes Off Bryce Harper’s Outburst on Salary Cap During Player Meeting
With the MLB labor deal ending in 2026, Rob Manfred faces Bryce Harper’s blunt rejection of a salary cap in a tense Phillies clubhouse....2025
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• Rob Manfred downplays salary cap dispute with Bryce Harper

An altercation between MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Phillies star Bryce Harper made headlines in July....2025
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• Rob Manfred Downplays Salary Cap Dispute With Bryce Harper

An altercation between MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Phillies star Bryce Harper made headlines in July, with the two-time MVP reportedly standing “nose to nose” with the commissioner and telling him he could “get the [expletive] out of our clubhouse” if he was going to talk about implementing a salary cap (per ESPN’s Jeff Passan).…...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm?
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• Dan Patrick blasts Bryce Harper for fiery Rob Manfred blowup: ‘Embarrassed for him’

Dan Patrick wasn’t a fan of how Bryce Harper handled himself with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, calling it “embarrassing” for the Phillies superstar. As The Post reported Monday, Harper got into a heated blowup last Monday when Manfred visited the Phillies’ clubhouse when the MLB commissioner started to wade into the waters of talking salary......2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 29, 2025
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• Insider Reveals Why Phillies Star Bryce Harper Went Nuclear On MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred
Insider Jeff Passan reported about a confrontation between Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper and MLB Comm. Rob Manfred over the salary cap....2025
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• Phillies' Bryce Harper reportedly told MLB boss Rob Manfred to 'get the f--- out' rather than talk salary cap

MLB owners regularly push for a salary cap during CBA negotiations, but players have never allowed it...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 29, 2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2354: Nothin’ But News
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft
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• MLB will be using the ball/strike challenge system in the All-Star Game

Major League Baseball This is good news. Many of us have been clamoring for the ball/strike challenge system, currently in use in some minor leagues, to be adopted for MLB games. And the league has strongly hinted it will be in effect next year. Now, per Jesse Rogers at ESPN.com, the system will be used in next week’s All-Star Game: MLB officials added the feature to the annual exhibitio...2025
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• Bobby Witt Jr. and Kris Bubic make All-Star Game
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• Manfred Comments On Revenue Split, Offseason Pace
The current collective bargaining agreement expires in less than 18 months. It’s widely expected there’ll be another offseason lockout and contentious round of labor negotiations after the CBA wraps on December 1, 2026. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred provided some hints at potential talking points in comments at an Investor Day event for the Braves last…...2025
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds

Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Prime Time gets moved from Atlanta to Cincinnati Braves Franchise History 1916: Christy Mathewson pitches a 3-0 shutout over the Boston Braves, leading the New York Giants to their 17th consecutive victory, all on the road. In spite of their impressive winning streak, the Giants will finish second to the Brooklyn Robins in the National League pennant...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 23, 2025

Photo by Tanner Gatlin/MLB Photos via Getty Images The stoppable force meets the movable object in Kauffman Stadium. David Lesky takes a long look at Kansas City Royals trade candidates (as buyers) at Inside the Crown. [$] Last year, two of the 12 teams in the postseason were under .500 after 23 games. The bar simply isn’t as high to get in, which means more times are in it a lot longer. B...2025
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• ESPN and MLB combined on a broadcast that was stunning — for all the wrong reasons
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• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 29, 2025
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• Lucas Giolito sounds off to Rob Manfred about sports betting threats: ‘A lot of nasty s–t’

"The threats when a player doesn’t perform well – threats to their family, threats to their life – it’s getting very tiring.”...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Do you want MLB players at the LA Olympics?

Triston Casas | Photo by KAZUHIRO FUJIHARA/AFP via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you want to let MLB players compete in the 2028 Olympics. It’s an All-Star Night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us for a while. There’s no cover charge. We still have a few g...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds
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• Pete Rose’s daughter overwhelmed by MLB reinstatement, makes Hall of Fame plea

Fawn Rose was so overcome with emotion on Tuesday after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred had taken her dad off the permanent ineligible list that she became teary-eyed....2025
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• Outside The Confines: Monday morning MLB moments

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Little tidbits from the weekend. Happy Monday, everyone. Plenty of fun stuff to catch up on from the weekend! We can see what happens when one of the tallest pitchers in baseball stands beside one of the shortest players. Elly De La Cruz fumbled a steal in fairly hilarious fashion. How are the Red Sox now celebrating their home runs? And...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 7, 2025

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Kris is Bubalicious. Bobby Witt Jr. fell a home run short of the cycle on Sunday. The elusive cycle remains at large for the time being. “In some ways, it’s luck,” Witt said. “But in some ways, you just let the game happen.” Anne Rogers writes about Kris Bubic’s dominant start on Sunday. Bubic has always had a good changeup, but it has way more depth to it now t...2025
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• Rose uses Astros saga to ask for reinstatement
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• Rose sends formal appeal to MLB commish
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• Gurriel suspended for first 5 games in 2018
Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel has been suspended without pay for the first five games of the 2018 regular season by Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Saturday afternoon before Game 4 of the World Series. Gurriel was seen making an inappropriate gesture toward Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish in the second inning of Houston's 5-3 win in Game 3 of the World Series on Friday....2017
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• Gurriel suspended for first 5 games in 2018
Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel has been suspended for five games during the 2018 regular season by Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Saturday afternoon before Game 4 of the World Series. Gurriel was seen making an inappropriate gesture toward Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish in the second inning of Houston's 5-3 win in Game 3 of the World Series on Friday....2017
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• Rob Manfred 'not confident' there will be a 2020 MLB season, says it's 'just a disaster for our game'
After the latest exchange of proposals, the MLB commissioner is expressing doubt about a season being played...2020
• Red Sox Fire Alex Cora
The Red Sox announced Tuesday evening that manager Alex Cora will not return as their manager in 2020. The news comes one day after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced the results of his investigation into the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal, wherein Cora was revealed to be one of the architects of Houston’s trash-can system. The Red…...2020
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• 3 Opening Day games to be played on first Sunday
Opening Day 2016 will feature a combined seven national ESPN telecasts -- three on Sunday, April 3, and four on Monday, April 4 -- Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Thursday at the end of Major League Baseball's quarterly Owners Meetings in Dallas....2015
• 3 Opening Day games to be played on first Sunday
Opening Day 2016 will feature a combined seven national ESPN telecasts -- three on Sunday, April 3, and four on Monday, April 4 -- Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Thursday at the end of Major League Baseball's quarterly Owners Meetings in Dallas....2015

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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• It is time for Rob Manfred and the MLB to bring back more divisional games

From June 16th to August 13th, the Washington Nationals did not play a single NL East opponent. That is nearly two months where the Nats were playing none of their rivals. While the MLB’s new balanced schedule has some features I like, it is strange to go that long without playing a divisional opponent. Prior […]...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: August 2
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• Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm?
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• Today in White Sox History: July 24

Tommy Pham and the hapless White Sox lost again one year ago today, creating an all-time franchise record second 10-game losing streak. | Sam Hodde/Getty Images Another losing streak hits 10 games for the hapless 2024 team 1960 In the first game of a doubleheader at New York, future Hall-of-Famer Nellie Fox banged out his 2,000th career hit. On the afternoon he’d have a pair in the 6-3 Whi...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The deadline is coming...

Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images Who will buy, who will sell? The countdown to the trade deadline is officially in the single-digit number of days, so don’t be surprised if the next eight days are a whirlwind of updates on that front. Who will buy? Who will sell? For many teams that question is still up in the air, but baseball front offices are going to need to make up their minds pretty soon,...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 16, 2025

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Wait so how many more days without Royals baseball? Check out this beast of a draft recap from Jared Perkins over at Inside the Crown. The overall first impression is strong, according to the prospect connoisseur. Overall, this draft was good given the overall down year for a draft class and where they were picking. While day two wasn’t as exciting, it was the day ...2025
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• Playoffs can be held at Steinbrenner Field

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images MLB played in a cornfield, why not on Dale Mabry Highway? Now we REALLY need to see the Rays make the postseason, because Rob Manfred has announced that Rays postseason games would in fact be played at their temporary home stadium. Manfred told the Tampa Bay Times: Our rule has always been that people play in their home stadiums during the...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts survey: Which starting pitcher(s) would you like to see the Cubs trade for?
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• Poll: Is Geographic Realignment A Good Idea?
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• Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm?
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2354: Nothin’ But News
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• Hypocrisy-driven Rob Manfred held an All-Star Game celebrating the shameless

How would Rob Manfred do if he were given a polygraph test to ask if he was proud of Tuesday’s edition of the Midsummer Classic, MLB’s All-Star Game....2025
• Rob Manfred’s 2028 Plan Unfolds As MLB Quietly Rekindles ESPN Talks Months After Their Messy TV Rights Breakup
Viewership and attendance continue to rise for Major League Baseball as there's a shocking development between Rob Manfred and ESPN....2025
• Rob Manfred and the MLB needs to own Memorial Day

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals are off this Memorial Day and that makes no sense There are some sports that go hand and hand with a holiday. For example, the NFL owns Thanksgiving, and the NBA owns Christmas. While the MLB goes all out for July 4th, they are missing an opportunity to own another holiday. Major League Baseball is making no effort to own Memorial Day, and...2025
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• The MLB needs to own Memorial Day

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals are off this Memorial Day and that makes no sense There are some sports that go hand and hand with a holiday. For example, the NFL owns Thanksgiving, and the NBA owns Christmas. While the MLB goes all out for July 4th, they are missing an opportunity to own another holiday. Major League Baseball is making no effort to own Memorial Day, and...2025
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• MLB ban on Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson to be lifted

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The hit king and baseball pariah could be eligible for Hall of Fame induction. On Tuesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated deceased players Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson from he permanently ineligible list, paving the way for them to be possibly inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manfred’s reasoning was that the bans were meant to b...2025
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• A century of exile concludes: Shoeless Joe Jackson finally has a chance for immortality

Say it’s so, Joe! MLB finally lifts lifetime ban for Jackson and others. | PhotoQuest/Getty Images MLB ends ban, Hall of Fame door opens for members of 1919 Black Sox In a stunning reversal of decades-long policy, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced today a sweeping decision to remove deceased players, including the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, from the permanently ...2025
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• Rob Manfred talks about torpedo bats, the ABS challenge system and more

Al Yellon The Commissioner gave a wide-ranging interview over the weekend. Over the weekend, Commissioner Rob Manfred gave a long interview to the New York Times, which you can read in its entirety here (article unlocked). I know it’s sport around baseball to mock and make fun of Manfred, but he did give some candid answers to questions surrounding the sport, and it’s useful for us to take...2025
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