The Joy of Sox · Feb 6, 2020
"The Problems That Manfred Claims To Be Solving Aren't Really Problems. They're Examples Of His Philosophy."
Major league baseball's biggest problem in 2020 is not pace of play or an altered baseball or too many strikeouts or increased salaries or (in scare quotes!) analytics or an explosion of infield shifts or frequent pitching changes. The biggest problem isn't even the umpires' inconsistent (and possibly biased) pitch-calling and scores of incorrect calls on the bases (many of which are, thankfully, overturned).
Baseball's (latest and on-going) biggest problem is Rob Manfred.
As NBC Sports' Nick Stellini writes, Commissioner Manfred "enjoys futzing around with the game's rules".
