The Atlantic League is going to help Major League Baseball by moving the mound back a foot. Class AAA teams are adopting enlarged bases to encourage steals. Major league teams now plant a runner on second in extra innings.
There’s nothing MLB commissioner Rob Manfred won’t try in his attempts to save his sport.
Well, there’s one thing.
The tinkerer in chief and the owners he represents don’t seem very willing to get serious about helping the growing percentage of people who want to watch baseball on TV, but can’t.
Can you imagine how fast Manfred would move to make a change if he learned there was one rule change that would grow some team’s audience by at least 10 percent?