Commissioner Rob Manfred is open to “non-radical” changes to baseball, but also wants to see a “kind of restoration” to the game.
Speaking Tuesday to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Manfred said that banning the shift, eliminating seven-inning doubleheaders and playing extra-inning games without a runner starting the inning at second base will be part of the upcoming rules discussions with the MLB Players Association.
Manfred said the goal is to return the game to a sense of normalcy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
“When we adopted seven-inning doubleheaders for this year, we didn’t know the country was going to look like it does now,” Manfred said in Denver before the All-Star Game.