Rangers land '24 MLB ASG; Manfred talks Rose

NEW YORK -- The Midsummer Classic is coming to the Lone Star State.

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Thursday the Texas Rangers volition big the All-Star Game successful 2024, marking the 2nd clip the franchise volition big the festivities. The squad antecedently held the 1995 All-Star Game, but the 2024 lawsuit volition beryllium the archetypal astatine Globe Life Field, which opened successful 2020.

"The Rangers stepped up nether hard circumstances and Globe Life Field served arsenic terrific big for the 2020 Postseason, including the World Series," Manfred said successful a statement. "We are excited to erstwhile again diagnostic Baseball's newest ballpark connected a planetary signifier adjacent summer."

While determination has been nary announcement connected who volition big the crippled successful 2025, the Mariners volition big successful 2023 and the Phillies volition big successful 2026.

In a quality league astatine MLB's offices Thursday, Manfred besides addressed the missive sent by shot fable Pete Rose, who pleaded for a accidental to beryllium considered for the Hall of Fame and again apologized for his 1980s gambling scandal. As Manfred has stated successful the past, helium believes players who stake connected shot beryllium connected the permanently ineligible list.

"When I dealt with the contented the past clip helium applied for reinstatement, I made wide that I didn't deliberation the relation of that shot database was the aforesaid arsenic the eligibility criteria for the Hall of Fame," Manfred said. "That remains my position. I deliberation it's a speech that truly belongs successful the Hall of Fame board. I'm connected that board, and it's conscionable not due for maine to get successful beforehand of that conversation."

Additionally, Manfred said FTX -- the cryptocurrency steadfast that collapsed successful caller weeks -- would not instrumentality arsenic a sponsor successful 2023. FTX antecedently appeared connected the azygous patches for umpires during the 2022 season.

"The FTX improvement was a small jarring," Manfred said. "We person been truly cautious moving guardant successful this space. We've been truly spiritual astir staying distant from coins themselves arsenic opposed to much company-based sponsorships. We deliberation that was prudent peculiarly fixed the mode things unfolded. We volition proceed with caution successful the future."

With the unionization of the insignificant leagues, the league and the MLBPA are presently successful ongoing negotiations implicit a corporate bargaining agreement. Manfred said the league and MLBPA person not had conversations beyond their goals for negotiations.

"The earthy timeline would beryllium to effort to get it done during the offseason," Manfred said. "We ever bash amended negotiating during the offseason truthful the earthy benignant of anticipation would beryllium to effort to get thing done earlier Opening Day."

The league besides announced the instauration of MLB University, a career-development programme designed to hole diverse, mid-level beforehand bureau executives for advancement to elder shot operations oregon on-field roles. The programme is being led by elder vice president for on-field operations Michael Hill.

Additionally, Manfred said the league is committed to the request that teams interrogation number candidates during hiring processes. The Selig Rule, created successful 1999, requires teams to interrogation minorities erstwhile filling vacancies for managers, wide managers, adjunct wide managers, scouting directors and insignificant league directors.

"We don't spot it arsenic an either/or betwixt the interrogation request oregon acquisition undertaking," Manfred said. "We deliberation you got to bash some to marque definite that you person the champion imaginable candidates who are disposable for interviews. In presumption of MLB University, I deliberation it's conscionable a broader, much elaborate program than thing we've done successful the past."