Major League Baseball has implemented significant pace-of-play rule changes for the 2015 season in an effort to speed up the game, it was announced Friday.
MLB commissioner Bud Selig says the league and its players' union have previously discussed the idea of a blanket policy regarding domestic violence during collective bargaining, yet so far baseball has opted to handle any issue on a case-by-case basis.
Bud Selig will likely leave his tenure as baseball commissioner early next year with one unsettled situation that has him "frustrated."
Rob Manfred was elected baseball's 10th commissioner Thursday, winning a three-man competition to succeed Bud Selig.
Bud Selig's successor as commissioner of baseball is expected to be decided next week, sources confirmed, when MLB owners assemble in Baltimore to vote on three finalists for the job.
Commissioner Bud Selig and players' association executive director Tony Clark both want MLB to ultimately eliminate the use of smokeless tobacco in the game.