When the commissioner of baseball speaks, we listen. So we were listening a few weeks ago when Rob Manfred stopped by the podcast of Puck’s John Ourand and dropped this giant breadcrumb about a rule ...

NEW YORK – Maybe you had the same reaction at hearing about MLB’s spit-balling of an idea called “the Golden At-Bat’’ rule. Yeah, this isn’t baseball. Hard pass. Within a game, a team could – ...

December 6: Jesse Rogers of ESPN followed up with Manfred about the golden at-bat idea. The commissioner emphasized that there’s “a very long road” from an idea being considered before it can be ...

Golden At Bat? Sounds like a Disney movie about a ragamuffin little league team on a mystical adventure. Albeit a chucklesome sobriquet, it’s nonetheless an intriguing idea. An at bat each game for a ...

The MLB has come up with several changes over the past couple of years. From pitch clock timing to shift bans, the league has made significant changes to the game. Commissioner Rob Manfred was the one ...

What if a team could choose one at-bat in every game to send its best hitter to the plate even if it wasn’t that guy’s turn to hit? That’s the Golden At-Bat concept in a nutshell. Say there are two ...

Is another rule change coming to baseball? MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has implemented some drastic tweaks since taking over for Bud Selig in 2015. There have been some notable positives, like the ...

As Rob Manfred continues to look for ways to spice up Major League Baseball, he apparently is considering a new out-of-the-box idea. MLB's commissioner recently told Puck's John Ourand that the ...