“We still have some technical issues,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday at a news conference following an owners meeting. “We haven’t made as much progress in the minor leagues this year as we sort of hoped at this point. I think it’s becoming more and more likely that this will not be a go for ’25.”
After instituting a pitch clock in 2023, MLB slowed innovation this year, with only small rules adjustments. “We have not started those conversations because we haven’t settled on what we think about it,” Manfred said. “Players feel that a catcher that frames is part of the — if you’ll let me use the word — art of the game, and that if in fact framing is no longer important, the kind of players that would occupy that position might be different than they are today," Manfred said. “You could hypothesize a world where instead of a framing catcher who’s focused on defence, the catching position becomes a more offensive player. That alters people’s careers.
“Dow has kind of cried uncle,” Manfred said. “They spent a ton of money and worked with us. They were great partners, had a lot of good ideas and we just were not able to come up with a ball that was playable. We’re now focusing our efforts on a tacky ball with the Rawlings people.”MLB is strategizing on a broadcast strategy to cope with the decline in cable television.
Manfred said there are two issues: whether MLB should take control of local rights from clubs and if that occurs, how to distribute revenue to clubs.
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