Rob Manfred

MLB owners are ready to cancel the whole 2027 season and I hope they do it. I’m a Pirates fan. What the hell are you threatening me with? This is what baseball needs, a cap and a floor. A real MLB salary floor, not the soft one these guys just put on paper. Some of...

Bryce Harper sat in a chair holding a bat last July while Rob Manfred talked to the Phillies about baseball’s economics. Harper sat quiet for most of the hour. Then he stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, and told the commissioner to get out of his clubhouse if the MLB salary cap...

Rob Manfred called a lockout “a positive.” The commissioner of Major League Baseball looked at the idea of shutting his own sport down and used the word positive. Tony Clark, the head of the players union, just resigned in disgrace four days ago after getting caught in a federal investigation involving his sister-in-law he personally...

The MLB 2027 lockout odds just jumped because the players’ union lost its top voice at the exact moment it needed to look bulletproof. Tony Clark resigned this week, and the reporting around it is not the kind you file under “messy breakup” or “awkward office email.” It includes an internal finding of an inappropriate...

MLB can flirt with prediction markets, but after FTX and a fresh pitch-fixing case, baseball should keep its distance. Fans are already drowning in gambling ads, and this is how sports get unwatchable. Baseball doesn’t need another “innovative partnership” that sounds smart in a boardroom and feels gross on your couch. Rob Manfred has openly...