There is a place no commissioner dares go in the modern world, and that is to pick a fight with an owner’s financial prerogatives.
But Rob Manfred is faced with that very problem now – all because Bruce Sherman has been allowed to gut the Miami Marlins for what by one count is the fifth time in the franchise’s 25-year history.
Clearly the time has come for him to address with his 30 employers the conundrum of the age, namely this:
What is more important to the business, a large market systematically robbed and disregarded, or a billionaire?