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• Could ESPN and MLB still have a broadcast future together?

Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Anything’s possible in this fast-changing media environment. Last week, I wrote here about the split-up between MLB and ESPN after the latter had carried MLB games for the last 35 years. MLB is supposedly looking for other broadcast partners, but who knows if they’ll be able to find one who will pay them as much ...2025
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images What does this mean for the future of baseball on TV? Earlier this month, I posted here about the possibility of ESPN opting out of the last three years of its deal with MLB. The TV network had until March 1 to make this decision. Now, that’s happened. Evan Drellich has details in this article in The Athletic. Bottom line, literally: MLB will have to fi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025

PHOTO DAY PICTURES ARE HERE!!!!! I’ll leave the best ones for whoever is doing our Photo Day story, but I figured the “Vinnie with a Pasquatch necklace” is good for today. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images SPRING TRAINING GAMES START TODAY! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Royals have their first Spring Training game today! The squad faces off against the Rangers at 2:05 PM Royals time. No TV t...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Andruw Jones is awarded a record contract in salary arbitration

Andruw Jones scores a major financial win in arbitration. Braves Franchise History 1923: Future Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson becomes president and owner of the Boston Braves. Mathewson purchases the team for $300,000 with New York attorney Judge Emil Fuchs. The deal does not include Braves Field, which still belongs to James Gaffney. There are also 85 minority stockholders. 1929: The Boston Re...2025
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• Commissioner Rob Manfred blames MLB's 'system' for Dodgers' spending

Commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledges that MLB has a money problem. The Dodgers have been spending heavily, making it difficult for even the wealthiest franchises to keep up....2025
• MLBPA's Tony Clark calls out Rob Manfred for lockout comments: 'The other side keeps interjecting negativity'

There are two more years on MLB's current CBA, but tensions are already starting to show...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Andruw Jones is awarded a record contract in salary arbitration
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19

Miguel Batista pitches for the Expos vs. the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Opening Day 1998 | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Miguel Batista. 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 lor...2025
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• Is signing Yuli Gurriel the right move for the Padres

New Padre Yuli Gurriel | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Gurriel will compete for a bench role in spring training The San Diego Padres needed a veteran bat after Jurickson Profar left town via free agency. The team agreed to a minor-league deal with first baseman Yuli Gurriel. However, determining if this is the right move for the Padres will not be that simple. Gurriel ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 27

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ban the bunt, Campanella’s collision, the Kris Bryant* decision, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plen...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The rich get richer

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Dodgers make yet another impact signing and the Yankees, of all teams, complain. Some other minor signings and a look at who is left on the market. Seattle is where bats go to die. Good morning. The rich get richer as the Dodgers have signed reliever Kirby Yates to a one-year, $13 million deal. Bradford Doolittle asks if you split the Dodgers ...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ weregild

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Everything has a price. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears,...2025
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• Rob Manfred concedes that inning requirements for starters won't solve problems, but he has another idea

The MLB commissioner wants to increase the use of starting pitchers without seeing injuries skyrocket...2024
• Is the Golden At-Bat coming soon to baseball?

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Imagine having the choice to see Ronald Acuña Jr. having the bat in his hands for every big late at-bat with the game on the line. Sounds like a golden idea, right? Maybe, maybe not! By now, I’d imagine that you’ve all heard about or read Jayson Stark’s article over on The Athletic about the “buzz” surrounding the idea that Major League Baseball may ad...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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• Ex-Mets GM Eppler suspended for faking injuries

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....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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"Rob Manfred says he is getting emails from fans concerned over MLB's lack of a salary cap following an offseason spending spree by the Dodgers."

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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."

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."

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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."

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"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."

• Could ESPN and MLB still have a broadcast future together?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Andruw Jones is awarded a record contract in salary arbitration
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The face of the franchise will become the face of free agency this fall. Happy Wednesday BCB friends! We have some interesting stories ahead for you today, chief among them being that one of baseball’s biggest extensions isn’t happening. The Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr failed to come to an agreement on extension terms. As a result, Vlad Jr,...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game

Al Yellon The Commissioner met with reporters on the annual Cactus League Media Day. PHOENIX, Arizona — It’s a rite of spring just as much as pitcher/catcher report day or the first Spring Training game. That’s the annual appearance of Commissioner Rob Manfred at a conference room at the Arizona Biltmore hotel to meet with the media. I’m glad to have been able to attend this presser so I c...2025
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• Is signing Yuli Gurriel the right move for the Padres
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• What happens if ESPN opts out of its TV deal with MLB?

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Worldwide Leader has broadcast MLB games since 1990. ESPN will be entering its 36th season of broadcasting Sunday Night Baseball and Tuesday announced that Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez and Buster Olney will be its SNB broadcast announcing team. They’ll be entering their fourth season as SNB announcers. But next month, ESPN can opt out of t...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 11, 2025 No MLB team has had a better offseason than the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have signed a litany of stars: Roki Sasaki; Blake Snell; Teoscar Hernández; Tanner Scott; Michael Conforto . . . There are more, but I have limited space. View this post on Instagram ...2025
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• To salary cap or not to salary cap, that is MLB’s question

Douglas DeFelice-USA TODAY Sports ... and depending on where this goes, it could mean a lengthy interruption for the game. We have two MLB seasons remaining before the current collective bargaining agreement between players and owners expires Dec. 1, 2026. And the question looming above the sport for player/owner negotiations beyond that date is: Should the sport have a salary cap? MLB own...2025
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• Could ESPN and MLB still have a broadcast future together?
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Andruw Jones is awarded a record contract in salary arbitration
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game
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• What happens if ESPN opts out of its TV deal with MLB?
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• The Savannah Bananas are must-see baseball

Al Yellon Well, it’s sort of baseball. And all great fun! MESA, Arizona — This isn’t a recap of the Savannah Bananas game Saturday night at Sloan Park. That’s because the score of the game isn’t really the point, although if I recall correctly, the Bananas “arch-rival” Party Animals scored 16 runs in the first eight innings and the Bananas had four. Or five, I didn’t keep score because... ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 31, 2025

Superb Owls indeed! | Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images Superb Owls, one week early Like baseball and have musical talent? We are now accepting auditions for National Anthem and God Bless America performances for the 2025 season!— Kansas City Royals (@royals.com) 2025-01-30T18:00:51.567Z Raising Royals, the Royals player development account, put out two videos with highli...2025
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• John Seidler will be the new boss. What’s next for the Padres?

2024 Opening Day at Petco Park | Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Friar Faithful are unsure what the future holds for their beloved franchise. The San Diego Padres offseason was dormant until the Seidler family provided more boardroom drama than an episode of HBO’s Succession. Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved John Seidler as the team’s control person during their...2025
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• Remembering the life of Fay Vincent

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Baseball’s eighth commissioner . When I was aspiring to be a writer, I began keeping magazine and newspaper articles of stories I found of interest. Over the years I accumulated a pile of stories which soon found their way into alphabetized file folders. I now have a box of accumulated stories and two of my favorite files are titled: Baseball and Good w...2025
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• Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent has died

Getty Images His tenure was brief, but eventful. Former MLB Commissioner Francis T. “Fay” Vincent, who oversaw the sport in a tumultuous time from 1989 to 1992, died Saturday in Florida, aged 86. Vincent was a reluctant Commissioner. A deputy Commissioner under Bart Giamatti, he succeeded to the top job on Giamatti’s untimely death at age 50 in 1989. Very early in his tenure he had to navi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 31, 2025
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• Rose uses Astros saga to ask for reinstatement
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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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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025
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• MLBPA's Tony Clark calls out Rob Manfred for lockout comments: 'The other side keeps interjecting negativity'
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• Is signing Yuli Gurriel the right move for the Padres
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• What happens if ESPN opts out of its TV deal with MLB?
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• MLB uniforms will look better this year after Nike addresses player complaints

Photo illustration: Mike Bojanowski Eventually, they’ll completely revert to the pre-2024 style. The photo illustration above is just one part of the uniform fiasco Nike put forth for MLB players in 2024. The Shōta Imanaga jersey at the left was the one he wore for his introductory news conference in January 2024, before the new Nike style debuted. The onel on the right, with the smaller n...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• To salary cap or not to salary cap, that is MLB’s question
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• John Seidler will be the new boss. What’s next for the Padres?
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• Manfred: Dodgers Aren’t Ruining Baseball
Major League Baseball’s 30 owners and commissioner Rob Manfred are having some scheduled meetings in Florida this week. One item on the agenda was approving John Seidler as the Padres’ control person, which MLBTR covered earlier. There are plenty of other issues going on around baseball, which Manfred discussed with Evan Drellich of The Athletic…...2025
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• Remembering the life of Fay Vincent
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• Is the Golden At-Bat coming soon to baseball?
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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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• 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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• Manfred: Astros immunity 'not my best decision'

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said he has some regrets over his handling of the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal, admitting in a recent interview that granting immunity to the players was "maybe not my best decision ever."...2023
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• MLB commissioner Rob Manfred regrets giving 2017 Astros players immunity in sign-stealing scandal

Manfred said granting players immunity in exchange for testimony was 'maybe not my best decision ever'...2023