DENVER -- Banning the shift, eliminating seven-inning doubleheaders and playing extra innings without a runner starting on second base are all on the table as Major League Baseball continues its post-COVID return to normalcy, while also negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the players' association.
"When we adopted seven-inning doubleheaders for this year, we didn't know the country was going to look like it does now," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a state-of-the sport address at the All-Star Game on Tuesday. "We were scared it was going to look very, very different.
"It was a COVID-related change.