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• Rob Manfred deferred to ownership again and let the Mets-Braves Hurricane Helene doubleheader mess happen

The two possibly playoff-bound teams play a doubleheader on Monday with the Wild Card Series starting Tuesday...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Which potential expansion city is best?

Set Number: X34693 TK2 R23 F5 The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks where MLB should expand to. It’s another Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in and join us. It’s good to see old friends and new ones. There’s no cover charge. We have a few tables available. Bring your ...2024
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• Braves stop, drop, and roll in August — in that order

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images It was the Braves’ best month since April, but they actually lost ground anyway I like doing monthly recaps because a month feels like the right unit of time to talk about a team’s ever-evolving arc during the course of the season. A game is a game, a series is a series, and a week is really just two series. A month? Yeah, you can get som...2024
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• Should Major Leaguers play in the 2028 L.A. Olympics?

Salvador Perez having a blast representing his country in the World Baseball Classic. | Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports If baseball returns to the Olympics in 2028, should MLB players participate? Quick—name your favorite moment in Olympic baseball history! Yeah, I didn’t think so. I don’t have one, either. Okay, maybe that’s not fair—maybe some of you have a favorite Olympic baseball moment....2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones

Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Braves record 11 hits off Jeff Tesreau and beat the Giants 7-3. Bill James is the winner while Joe Connolly finishes a triple shy of a cycle. 1971 - The Braves purchase infielder Tony LaRussa from the A’s. 1982 - Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the Padres and move back within 1.5 games of first place Los Angeles in the NL West standi...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: The last game before the 1994 strike

Mark Grace at Wrigley Field in 1994 | Getty Images The Cubs and Giants played on this day 30 years ago. No one knew there’d be no more baseball in 1994. The Cubs were not a good team in 1994. They lost their first 14 home games and started the season 9-22, 12 games out of first place by May 11. They recovered, a bit, after that, and had a run of 39-34 from May 12 through Aug. 1. That inclu...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones
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• Outside The Confines: The Draft is on tap

Travis Bazzana | Jordan Prather-USA TODAY Sports All-Star Week is full of events, like the Draft, the Futures Game and the Home Run Derby. Oh yeah, there’s also the All-Star Game. Good morning. We’re going to have plenty of draft coverage over the next week. We’re going to do a lot of mocking of drafts over the weekend. The real one comes Sunday night. Eric Longenhagen has a mock draft. ...2024
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• Rob Manfred on rash of MLB pitching injuries: 'Pursuit of spin and velocity' among commissioner's concerns

The MLB commissioner discussed several topics ahead of next week's All-Star Game...2024
• What a difference 45 little years make

These days, it’s the teams that are in the chips. | Spinetti’s Gaming Baseball’s aMays-ing plummet into gambling FIRST, WE GO BACK The death of Willie Mays this week is a reminder that then-baseball commissioner and Duty Village Idiot Bowie Kuhn had once banned Mays and Mickey Mantle from the game for life, thereby proving that wearing short sleeves to a frigid World Series game in 1976 w...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 17

Don Kessinger had a day | Photo by: 1970 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Dom Kessinger’s perfect day and many other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and ...2024
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• Mobday Rockpile: Why calling up Adael Amador was a great idea

Photo by Scott Kane/Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Monday, June 10, 2024 The news broke Saturday morning: BREAKING: The Colorado Rockies are calling up INF Adael Amador, per sources. He is the No. 32 prospect in baseball, according to @MLBPipeline. pic.twitter.com/eDb4U8i8BF— Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) June 8, 2024 The arrangement was curious, though. Yes,...2024
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• Tucupita Marcano’s lifetime ban in MLB gambling scandal, explained

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images MLB took disciplinary action against five players for gambling, including a lifetime ban for the Paders’ Tucupita Marcano Tucupita Marcano joined the San Diego Padres as an international free agent in 2016 with dreams of playing in the major leagues. He finally reached the big leagues in 2021 with the Padres, recording his first MLB hit...2024
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• What exactly has happened to the Braves offense?

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports The best offense in baseball in 2023 has been anything but in 2024. Thursday’s game against the Nationals marks the 54th game of the season, exactly 1⁄3 of the way through the season, and for a majority of it, the Braves offense has been a shell of the version we saw in 2023. Incredibly, in the month of May, the Braves have not won a single game where the oppos...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Braves lost their superstar for the season. The Yankees are soaring and the Dodgers are struggling. And other news from MLB and baseball. Good morning. Reigning National League Most Valuable Player Ronald Acuña Jr. is out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. He tore his right ACL back in 2021 and missed the rest of that season as well. Dan...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 24, 2024

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Royals. They are good. Sam McDowell writes about the fantastic starting pitching from this week’s homestand. Baseball is a game of independent, individual games within the game. I get it. But it’s hard not to believe in some correlation from one start to the next, right? “We’re definitely feeding off each other,” Singer said. “Nobody wants to be the...2024
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• This Day in MLB History: March 16

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 Stockings. 1907 - The Detroit Tigers agree to trade Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps in a deal for Elmer Flick but Cleveland’...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024

Ok, that’s pretty funny | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images There are baseball players doing real baseball things in Arizona and Florida! Baseball is back (!), which means Anne Rogers newsletter is back! She looks at three storylines for this spring: Vinnie Pasquantino’s return to the lineup It’s been eight months since Pasquantino appeared in the Royals’ lineup after rig...2024
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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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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

• BCB After Dark: Which potential expansion city is best?
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• Today in Cubs history: The last game before the 1994 strike
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• Rays receive final approval for new stadium in St. Petersburg!

The Pinellas County Commission voted 5-2 to score a new stadium for the Rays in St. Pete. It’s official! The Rays are “Here to Stay.” During a busy MLB trade deadline, the Rays biggest acquisition wasn’t a bevy of top prospects, it was the final, necessary approvals for the team’s Gas Plant district redevelopment and new stadium project in St. Petersburg. The Rays marked the milestone with a vid...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Rays have passed one of the most difficult hurdles to securing their new stadium Baseball isn’t leaving St. Petersburg, FL any time soon, thanks to a major hurdle the Rays cleared today. The City council voted in favor of the Rays stadium deal, meaning the team has found its home for the next thirty years. Specifically, the vote was to ...2024
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• I just wish the Royals didn’t spend high picks on high school pitching

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announces Frank Mozzicato as the seventh overall pick for the Kansas City Royals during the 2021 Major Leauge Baseball Draft at Bellco Theater at Colorado Convention Center on Sunday, July 11, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Where are the results? The 2024 Major League Baseball draft is over. Led by a new scouting ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The stars at night are big and bright . . .

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby took place this week. As if that wasn’t enough news, so did the MLB Draft. Also, announcer rankings. What are we going to do today with no baseball? Anthony Castrovince offers his thoughts and has a recap of the American League’s 5-3 win over the National League in the All-Star Game. Do-Hyoung Park ...2024
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• Rob Manfred Hints At Changes To Rules On Trading Draft Picks
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred spoke on various topics today, including possibly loosening the rules on trading draft picks. Per J.J. Cooper of Baseball America, Manfred suggested the owners have some openness to allowing teams more freedom to trade picks but he also noted that changes would have to be collectively bargained with the…...2024
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• What a difference 45 little years make
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• Mobday Rockpile: Why calling up Adael Amador was a great idea
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• BCB After Dark: Which potential expansion city is best?
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• Braves stop, drop, and roll in August — in that order
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• Should Major Leaguers play in the 2028 L.A. Olympics?
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones
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• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays
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• I just wish the Royals didn’t spend high picks on high school pitching
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• Mobday Rockpile: Why calling up Adael Amador was a great idea
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview

How long will this man last as Sox manager? | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The South Siders head to the North Side for a pair. You know, I was actually hoping the White Sox would beat the Brewers on Sunday. Not just because it would help the Cubs in the NL Central standings, but because the last thing the Cubs should want is to host a team on an 11-game losing streak. Sigh. Sox los...2024
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• What exactly has happened to the Braves offense?
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks
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• Should Major Leaguers play in the 2028 L.A. Olympics?
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• Bristol Motor Speedway to host MLB game in 2025

Bristol Motor Speedway, one of NASCAR‘s most iconic tracks, will host a regular season MLB game between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds in 2025, multiple sources told The Athletic on Tuesday. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith, whose family has long owned and operated Bristol, are set to make an announcement at the track in Tennessee on Friday. See ...2024
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• Rays receive final approval for new stadium in St. Petersburg!
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• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays
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• Outside The Confines: The stars at night are big and bright . . .
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• What exactly has happened to the Braves offense?
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• Braves News: Atlanta adds Joey Wendle, options Darius Vines, and more

Photo by Joe Puetz/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves announced several roster moves ahead of Friday night’s contest in Pittsburgh. The most anticipated was the recall of Ray Kerr, who was appointed to start the series opener. Then, the club placed AJ Smith-Shawver, who made his season debut Thursday, on the 15-day injured list. Smith-Shawver was dia...2024
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• Outside The Confines: World Baseball Classic is coming...

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images To a town near you? Sure, the World Baseball Classic isn’t happening again until 2026, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start getting excited about it early (or planning trips to go see it). And now that planning is a little easier as the four host cities were announced on Thursday. San Juan, Tokyo, Houston, and Miami will all play host to the initial round...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 24, 2024
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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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• Baseball history unpacked, April 26

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Kosuke Fukudome, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the course of...2024
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• Rob Manfred deferred to ownership again and let the Mets-Braves Hurricane Helene doubleheader mess happen
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• BCB After Dark: Which potential expansion city is best?
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• Braves stop, drop, and roll in August — in that order
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• Should Major Leaguers play in the 2028 L.A. Olympics?
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• Today in Cubs history: The last game before the 1994 strike
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• Rays receive final approval for new stadium in St. Petersburg!
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• Today in White Sox History: July 24

Joe Crede connected on a sayonara home run to beat Detroit and put the White Sox back in first place on this day, 20 years ago. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Joe Crede! (walks it off) 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 White Sox victory. The hit came in the fi...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays
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• I just wish the Royals didn’t spend high picks on high school pitching
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• Outside The Confines: The stars at night are big and bright . . .
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• Tucupita Marcano’s lifetime ban in MLB gambling scandal, explained
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• There is no such thing as a good owner

Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman prior to a game against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Last June, the Oakland Athletics were in the midst of yet another terrible season. With an Opening Day payroll of under $57 million, they were dead last in spending—the third time in the past six years that they were last or second to last in total pay...2024
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• Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal: Rob Manfred hopes for 'short' MLB investigation into alleged interpreter theft

The interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has been accused of stealing millions of dollars to cover his gambling debt...2024
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• Manfred eyes 'short' time for Ohtani investigation

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday the league is committed to its investigation of the scandal surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, and hopes it will take a "short" time to resolve....2024
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• You are Commish for a day - what do you change?

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Fix the game for us. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced recently that he is stepping down...when his term expires in 2029. There is speculation on who might replace him, with former Red Sox and Cubs executive Theo Epstein a popular choice, but the most likely selection is some executive - probably a lawyer - already in the MLB office wh...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Rejoice, baseball fans, we now have an idea of when the Manfred era will end. If we’re being honest, the role of MLB Commissioner is not an enviable one. The job, by its very nature, is inclined to create ire among fans, as the person in charge is trying to appease fans, players, but mostly owners, and the goals of those three groups rarely...2024
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• Another update on the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas situation

Fans at the Oakland Coliseum in September 2022 | Al Yellon Just when you thought it couldn’t get messier, it has. Gonna say this right now, off the top, so we’re all on the same page: If this topic doesn’t interest you, go pass it on by and click on some other BCB article. I think the issues surrounding the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas are important for the entire future o...2024
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• A few thoughts about MLB’s same-city rivalries
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Too many games? Too few? You make the call. Last week, I wrote about the fights I saw at the Cubs/White Sox game Wednesday, July 26 on the South Side. One conclusion I drew from that: Lastly, from time to time the subject of MLB realignment brings up the possibility that the Cubs and White Sox could be placed in the same division, and thus perhaps play a ...2023
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