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With some teams electing to change their nicknames in recent years (see the Cleveland Guardians) due to offending groups, the Atlanta Braves have been one team brought up numerous times as it pertains to a potential name change. Count MLB commissioner Rob Manfred on the side of keeping the name “Braves” for Atlanta’s hometown team. […]

As the MLB season has gone on and cases of COVID-19 among players remain, alarmingly, relatively steady, it appears that there may be some shady activity going on in the league’s commissioner office and beyond. According to Boston Red Sox outfielder Hunter Renfroe, the league asked Red Sox players to stop receiving COVID tests when […]

Rob Manfred always seems to draw a negative reaction from the masses whenever he is handing down a ruling in MLB. This can be said for many commissioners but Manfred especially. When MLB made changes over a year ago to shorten double-headers to seven innings and start extra innings with a runner on second base, […]

The new sticky substance rule enforced by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has objectively not been off to a good start. Max Scherzer and Sergio Romo started stripping down on the field while throwing their hat, glove and belt to the ground. Fans have booed almost every time a pitcher has been stopped to be checked […]

Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball once again find themselves in the forefront of the news cycle for a topic that isn’t going to help grow the game of baseball and its popularity. As a result, Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher Trevor Bauer decided to go troll mode and chime in with his own thoughts. […]

Major League Baseball has pulled the 2021 All-Star Game and amateur draft out of the city of Atlanta. The move was done in opposition to the controversial voter suppression bill recently becoming law in the state of Georgia. MLB Commissioner Rob Mandred released an official statement explaining the decision: “Over the last week, we have […]

Minutes after the Los Angeles Dodgers bagged the World Series on Tuesday, a bizarre twist in the narrative came about in the form of third baseman Justin Turner testing positive for COVID-19. Turner was pulled out in the middle of the game once the team learned about his positive result, but oddly enough, the 35-year-old […]

The New York Mets do not want to play Thursday night’s game against the Miami Marlins. It seems Major League Baseball and Commissioner Rob Manfred is trying to make them play. Video surfaced of Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen talking about contact he had with the league office. According to Van Wagenen, Manfred suggested […]

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has threatened to shut down the 2020 MLB season if the sport doesn’t do a better job of managing the coronavirus, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. This comes in the wake of a plethora of Miami Marlins players and coaches testing positive for COVID-19 over the last week. The Marlins […]

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made an appearance on MLB Network on Monday evening while notably providing the world with an update regarding the Miami Marlins. The Marlins have been hit hard by the ongoing “coronavirus” pandemic that is still sweeping through the nation. Not only will the Marlins undergo further testing as a […]

The 2020 MLB season will be delayed further in light of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation to ban congregations of 50 and more people within the next eight weeks in hopes to contain the coronavirus pandemic. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the regular season will be pushed back due to this […]

The coronavirus pandemic has led to the suspension or cancelation of nearly every major professional sports league around the country and even worldwide. Major League Baseball was swift to respond to the NBA’s decision to suspend the league. Commissioner Rob Manfred elected to suspend spring training and delay Opening Day by at least two weeks. […]

In the midst of the recent release of wide-reaching changes for the MLB postseason that are being discussed, the sport of baseball is seemingly straying further and further away from what has made it such a beloved sport, and more importantly, one that brings people from different walks of life together. From being America’s Pastime […]

In a shocking twist that could turn the fortunes of the sport of baseball and the MLB on its head, a reported change is coming to the structure of how the MLB postseason picture plays out. And shockingly enough, the motive behind it seems to be a financial one. According to Joel Sherman of the […]

Minor League Baseball is at the epicenter in the resurgence in popularity in the sport of baseball – from in-game activities that get fans involved to seeing the future of the sport at a level in which they have not yet ‘made it,’ the MiLB does things right. But if the MLB has any say […]

The Houston Astros already face a deficit in the World Series, trailing the Washington Nationals by two games to one. But they have also faced off-field distractions. Houston fired assistant general manager Brandon Taubman after he directed insensitive comments towards a group of female reporters following the Astros win over the New York Yankees in […]

With the Professional Baseball Agreement that is put in place between Major League Baseball and minor league baseball teams as a whole scheduled to run out after the 2020 season, an unfortunate proposal of cutting around 40 MiLB teams is in play. In a detailed piece written by J.J. Cooper of Baseball America, he notes […]