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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We are awaiting a formal response from the union. We expect that in the very near future.
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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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We have our regular crews. If somebody gets injured and they're unwilling to work, we'll find somebody willing to work.
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For us to make a deal, there has to be a luxury tax in it.
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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. 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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Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction.
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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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The players' association negotiated for a clean slate when a player is promoted from the minor leagues to the major leagues. That clean slate, however, is a two-way street. If minor-league discipline does not count in determining the severity of the penalty to be imposed for a violation of the major-league program, then such discipline cannot immunize the player from discipline under the major-league program.
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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.
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We've worked very hard on our relationship with the players association. The economics of the sport are strong and the current agreement has worked very well. Those three things are good reason to be optimistic we can get a new agreement without a dispute.
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We are early in the game, ... But, from our prospective, the most important issue in the negotiations was competitive balance. We believe we have seen a significant improvement just this year.
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Forbes has never had access to financial information from major league baseball or the individual clubs.