{"id":14942,"date":"2020-06-25T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-we-owe-it-to-our-fans-to-be-better\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:18:00","slug":"mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-we-owe-it-to-our-fans-to-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-we-owe-it-to-our-fans-to-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"#MLB commissioner Rob Manfred: \u2018We owe it to our fans to be better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#MLB commissioner Rob Manfred: \u2018We owe it to our fans to be better\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Rob Manfred knows many fans were angered by the financial fight between Major League Baseball and the players\u2019 association during a pandemic. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get back on the field, and we need to in a less-charged environment start to have conversations about how we \u2014 and the we in that sentence is the commissioner\u2019s office, my staff, the clubs and the MLBPA and the players \u2014 can be better going forward,\u201d he said Wednesday during an interview with The Associated Press. \u201cWe owe it to our fans to be better than we\u2019ve been the last three months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spring training was cut short by the novel coronavirus on March 12. The sides reached an initial agreement on March 26, which was to have been opening day. That deal called for players to receive prorated salaries, get $170 million in advances and receive a guarantee of service time in the event no game<\/a>s were played this year. <\/p>\n

When it became clear the only way to start the season was to play in empty ballparks, the sides battled publicly over what the agreement meant.<\/p>\n

Owners said players needed to accept additional cuts and proposed an 82-game schedule starting around the Fourth of July. Players argued they shouldn\u2019t have to accept less than the original deal called for. But that agreement didn\u2019t bind Manfred to start the season with no gate revenue.<\/p>\n

Vitriol rose in baseball\u2019s worst infighting since the 7 1\/2-month strike of 1994-95 wiped out the World Series<\/a> for the first time in nine decades. The union rejected the last proposal for a financial agreement, then finished protocols to play in the pandemic on Tuesday and promised players will start reporting July 1 for a 60-game season scheduled to start July 23 or 24, MLB\u2019s briefest since 1878.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus here was on a day\u2019s wage for a day\u2019s worth of work,\u201d union head Tony Clark said during a separate interview with the AP. \u201cThat\u2019s what we believed was fair, and that\u2019s why we maintained the position that we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the view of many, the outcome left losers on both sides. MLB already has experienced four straight seasons of declining average attendance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s a damn shame that the ramifications of this are going to be felt for a long time,\u201d said Cincinnati catcher Tucker Barnhart, the Reds\u2019 player representative. \u201cI grew up a baseball fan, I\u2019m a baseball fan first, and I think it sucks that it\u2019s had to go on the way that it is. But I hope that getting out and playing will kind of mask some of the bruises that the game as a whole has taken over the last few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rob Manfred<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MLB intends to start without fans in ballparks, even in places where government and medical officials allow some spectators.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to get on the ground running and get comfortable that we can play games in empty stadiums safely before we move forward fans,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cMy patience in that regard is in part based on the fact that there are so many different situations. Some places there looks like there\u2019s no prospect, other places they\u2019re more aggressive. I think we need to be patient and even where we have the option, we need to make sure that we know exactly what we\u2019re doing before we jump into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owners decided to go ahead with a season despite the threat of a grievance from the union, which has claimed MLB did not adhere to provisions in the March 26 agreement requiring the longest schedule economically feasible. That deal also included additional provisions such as fans being allowed into all 30 ballparks and no relevant travel<\/a> restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time you make a decision like this, you balance risk and reward,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cI think the clubs felt that the most important objective was to get the game back on the field, and because that was the most important objective, they were prepared to bear whatever risk was associated with a grievance that is \u2014 let me be really clear about this: utterly without merit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark would not directly respond when asked whether lasting damage had been inflicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is an opportunity to move forward, move our game forward,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd as it relates to the atmosphere in general<\/a>, the lines of communication remain open, and we\u2019ll count that as a positive in the days ahead. \u201d<\/p>\n

Because there was no financial agreement, the postseason is slated to remain at 10 teams rather than expand to 16. MLB could attempt to make another proposal for a larger postseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would simply say that if there\u2019s interest to discuss something, I\u2019ll be available to discuss it,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

He maintained the decision by the executive board to reject the last plan Monday was not a choice of a grievance over a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grievance was not the focus, never has been the focus,\u201d he said. \u201cThe goal, and that\u2019s why we sent across proposals, was to attempt to find common ground on an agreement. We simply were unable to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

He would not address last week\u2019s one-on-one meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, which Manfred said produced a framework for a deal and Clark called merely a management proposal. Manfred has maintained Clark promised to try to persuade players to accept it, then said a few hours later he could not get their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cRob can focus on his side and I\u2019ll focus on mine,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

Clark defended the union\u2019s decision not to accept MLB\u2019s offer to eliminate free-agent compensation, which could hurt several players\u2019 value next offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was associated with significant salary cuts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As baseball prepares to resume, Manfred and his staff have watched European soccer leagues carry on with closed-door matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe normally think about our product as two products, the live product and the broadcast product,\u201d he said. \u201cGiven our current situation, I think that the goal is to make the broadcast product, because it\u2019s the only one we have, as entertaining for fans as we possibly can. We\u2019re working closely with the RSNs and our national partners in an effort to give the game a zeal that will be satisfying to our fans without having the normal crowd noise and excitement that\u2019s created by that environment.\u201d <\/p>\n

Broadcasts possibly may contain artificial crowd noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still making decisions about that,\u201d he said. \u201cI like what they\u2019ve done in England and Germany because I think it\u2019s innovative and I think that the current situation calls for us to try some things that are different.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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