MLB commissioner Rob Manfred Sitting with Michael Schmidt from NY Times for a large interview. Among the guards:
On robot referees: “I think that the experience really succeeded. I think the owners made a good choice by going first with the challenge system, and I hope that we will bring it in 2026. Negotiation.
If the disparity of income is a “massive problem”: “A hundred percent. Look at it, think about it this way. We sell competition-based entertainment. If people do not believe that there is competition, you have a product problem, an existential problem for your business.”
On Torpille bats: “They are absolutely good for baseball. I believe that problems like the Batte de la Torpille and the debate around that demonstrate the fact that baseball always occupies a unique place in our culture, because people put themselves in a full frenzy on something that is really nothing at the end of the day.”
Expanding: “I hope we have at least chosen the cities before we finished (2029)” (NY Times, 4/6).
