Talk:Rob Manfred

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Birth

In the absence of any source for a date of birth that I can find, while this edit is at least acceptable within the confines of the data reported, it's still problematic. The cited ESPN and Associated Press reports give Manfred's age at publication as 55, but there's nothing corroborating it; there is literally no independent reason to expect that these reports didn't simply lift his age from the mlb.com bio posted 11 months previously. He may turn 56 within the next few weeks; he may have celebrated that birthday late last year, making 1957 his birth year. I won't revert the edit, but it seems too much conjecture until we have some verification. —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 06:40, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Between the Steve Morse birth database (http://stevemorse.org/birthday/birthday2.html) and Ancestry.com there are two listings for Robert D Manfred with a DOB of September 28, 1958. Birthdatabase lists him as living in Rockville, Maryland. Ancestry has him moving on to Tarrytown, New York, which he did after he joined MLB. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackson008 (talk • contribs) 22:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

The Reference section takes up almost as much space as the article. I like this. What a well sourced article. It should be commended officially. Donutcity (talk) 04:26, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To add

Dan LeBatard interview Permanent ban of John Coppollela – Muboshgu (talk) 18:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Commissioner of Baseball title

As far as I know, the job title is still Commissioner of Baseball, not "Commissioner of Major League Baseball," unless Manfred has demoted himself.68.191.94.139 (talk) 17:47, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

His official bio lists Manfred as the commissioner of Major League Baseball [1]. Calidum 18:05, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Our page is located at Commissioner of Baseball. It may be a good idea to look into WP:COMMONNAME for a potential page move, given that he isn't the commissioner of all baseball. NPB and KBO have their own commissioners, for instance. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:23, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Of course he does not have jurisdiction over Japanese, Korean, and other organizations. But according to the article Commissioner of Baseball, he still has responsibility for all the professional leagues under "Organized Baseball," not just the major league(s). So "Commissioner of Major League Baseball" doesn't accurately describe the scope of his job either. But regardless of the extent of his jurisdiction, the official title has been Commissioner of Baseball. If the formal title has changed, that raises the question of when it changed, and who would have been the last person with the title of Commissioner of Baseball. The listing at mlb.com refers to to "The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball" [2], and "Commissioner of Baseball" here: [3]. So there does seem to still be official use of the original title.68.191.94.139 (talk) 12:28, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Should be added to 2021 All Star Game Relocation... Rob Manfred is a member at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Numerous Republicans, including Senator Rubio and Governor Kemp have noted the hypocrisy of Manfred maintaining his personal membership at a Georgia based golf club while unilaterally using his power as commissioner to movie MLB events out of Georgia. Thus far, Manfred has not commented on the matter. VRWC20 (talk) 18:15, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Even with sources, this is probably too much detail for this article based on WP:UNDUE. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 18:20, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Rob Manfred

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Rob Manfred's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto2":

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From The Wall Street Journal: McLaughlin, Aidan (July 22, 2020). "WSJ Reporters Call Out Misinformation and 'Disregard For Evidence' From Paper's Opinion Section in Scathing Letter". Mediaite. Retrieved July 22, 2020.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT ⚡ 11:38, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oakland Athletics

I just tagged the section as WP:UNDUE. Much of the section has nothing to do with him. I deleted a sentence about "Reverse Boycott II". and a paragraph that was about John Fisher.[4] – Muboshgu (talk) 20:49, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]