Rob Manfred
Rob Manfred
Robert D. Manfred Jr.is an American lawyer and business executive who is the tenth and current Commissioner of Baseball. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball and succeeded Bud Selig as Commissioner on January 25, 2015...
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With respect to the appeal process for on-field discipline, that process was negotiated in collective bargaining and has served the industry well for decades, ... Mr. Wells' dissatisfaction with his appeal says more about his poor behavior than it does about the quality of the appeal process.
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Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction. With respect to the larger issue of steroids, Mr. Wells is obviously unaware that commissioner Selig has proposed a tougher steroid policy for the industry and that such a policy can be imposed only through collective bargaining.
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In all candor, I think the agreement has probably been showing positive trends sooner than we might have expected. It looks like it's working.
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The minor league program has been very effective at getting us to very low positive rates in the minor leagues,
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We like to keep them fairly low-keyed. You're not going to see a lot of publicity.
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The tax mechanism in the last basic agreement would not be acceptable to us this time around.
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Because of the nature of our travel and the makeup of our employees, it has never been an issue that we had to centrally regulate, ... The clubs have been close enough as to what they require of the players.
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Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction.
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David Wells has once again created a distraction with a series of ill-informed and ill-conceived comments,
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They make these numbers up. We just think it's important that people understand and realize these are not real in any sense of the word.
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Forbes has never had access to financial information from major league baseball or the individual clubs.
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We are awaiting a formal response from the union. We expect that in the very near future.
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If you compress payroll, lessen payroll disparity, have a little restraint at the top, give more at the bottom,
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We think you cannot evaluate a program based on the results of a single case, that overall, the rules that we negotiated are designed to be strict but fair with the overall goal being to deter use. To the extent that anyone disagrees with the result in a particular case, it might be the result of our desire to deter use.