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TAMPA, Fla. – Major League Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manfred touched
down at spring training on Thursday,
sharing a short flight with team execu-
tives and meeting the media. And in the
short term, with visions ranging from
Scottsdale to Seoul to the Deep South,
there was little to dim the customary
spring training wonder for the 2024 sea-
son ahead.
Yet peeking further down the road
provides a different view, to a 2025
landscape that may see significant dis-
ruptions.
The chasm dividing the modern con-
sumer and the manner in which MLB
consistently generates some $11 billion
in annual revenue – largely through
multibillion-dollar national and local
TV contracts – is nearing the point of
rupture.
Decades of passive cable TV revenue
from cable subscribers that easily
passed from ESPN’s and Fox’s coffers on
to MLB is about to hit a detour – in the
form of a streaming alliance forged be-
tween the two network behemoths,
their respective sports cable channels
and Warner Bros. – all national rights
holders.
Manfred himself hopes to launch a
direct-to-consumer in-market stream-
ing product for an estimated 14 teams
that would both stanch the revenue
bleed from teams ravaged by the Dia-
mond Sports bankruptcy while also
nudging baseball closer to modern con-
sumption – although whether such a
product would generate sufficient reve-
nue remains in question.
Throw in one self-inflicted wound –
the fact that, nearly a year out, the Oak-
land Athletics do not know where they’ll
play baseball in 2025 – and Manfred
and the 30 owners for whom he works
will be consumed by plenty beyond the
white lines.
Perhaps most notably: Luring a sig-
nificant media partner willing to pour
the millions to billions of dollars into
Manfred’s streaming gambit – keeping
the revenue streaming and cord-cutting
fans’ homes gleaming with baseball.
“Longer term, our goal is to preserve
what is the remainder of legacy cable
bundle,” said Manfred on Thursday at a
Grapefruit League media event held at
the Yankees spring complex. “The eco-
nomics of that bundle are really impor-
tant to us. There are some people – in-
cluding Rob Manfred – who will be
clutching that cable remote until I die.
“I do, h owever, recognize that there
are a lot of people – for reasons com-
pletely unrelated to baseball or any kind
of programming, for fundamental eco-
nomic reasons – who opt out of that ca-
ble bundle. We have to serve those peo-
ple.
“Put the economics to one side. It’s a
question of reach. You’ve got to get the
games in the household. And the eco-
nomics of the broadcasts – in some
ways, it is secondary to the rest of our
business. If there’s a house where there
are young kids and they’re cord-cutters
and there’s no way to watch baseball –
it’s unlikely those kids will be fans and
ask their parents to go to a game live.”
The search for a media partner to
drive this distribution – and this reve-
nue – is already underway. Manfred ac-
knowledged that the “digital side of the
house” is not necessarily going to be
owned and operated by MLB.
And he hinted that his phone has
been ringing from entities (one guess:
You’re likely already paying them in
some form for entertainment) eager to
team up on Manfred’s streaming ven-
ture.
“ Just like on the broadcast side,” he
says, “we have, already, significant in-
terest from major partners that would
alter the economic proposition of that
digital offering in a significant way.”
While it’s not likely such a streaming
house would have all 30 teams under
one roof – the Yankees and Dodgers and
Mets, after all, rake in plenty of money
on their own relative to the Twins and
Marlins – a centralized solution proba-
bly can’t come soon enough.
‘It did create uncertainty’
With the bankruptcy of Diamond
Sports – which operates the Bally’s net-
works that hold rights to dozens of pro
sports teams – MLB is already produc-
ing the broadcasts for the Padres, Dia-
mondbacks and Rockies.
The Guardians, Twins and defending
World Series champion Rangers are
homeless come 2025 and would likely
be MLB-produced, as well.
In an industry that has veritably
printed money from its local broadcast
deals, the reality has been sobering,
particularly for teams like Cleveland
and Minnesota that reside outside of
major markets.
The Twins are hardly cheap for their
market, committing $200 million to
shortstop Carlos Correa last winter, won
the AL Central and defeated the bigger-
bucks Toronto Blue Jays in the wild-
card round.
Yet as they entered the offseason, the
Twins had no carrier. Diamond Sports
took them on for one more year, but the
future beyond that is uncertain, save for
MLB adding them to the in-house pro-
duction list.
This offseason, there was no spend-
ing spree, just the loss of free agent All-
Star pitcher Sonny Gray and the trade of
All-Star second baseman Jorge Polanco.
“For us, it did create some uncertain-
ty,” Derek Falvey, the Twins’ president of
baseball operations, said Thursday.
“ And there was new information, it felt
like, two to three weeks, about what
might happen and what the next solu-
tion would be. For ownership more than
anything, it left a little bit of a blank
space in terms of what this means going
forward and impacted some of our deci-
sion-making.
“We have some clarity on this year,
but what that means for ’25 and beyond
is unclear. We just have to take it step-
by-step.”
Yet at least the Twins know where
they’re going to play.
An ‘adequate’ Vegas situation
The many unusual or borderline in-
ept maneuverings surrounding the Ath-
letics’ planned move to Las Vegas are
more or less Athletics’ problems. Yet the
most immediate – where the team will
call home from 2025 to at least 2028 – is
starting to affect MLB’s operations.
The club missed a hoped-for January
deadline to find a temporary home after
its Oakland Coliseum lease expires after
this season. By now, MLB usually has a
rough draft of the 2025 schedule, which
Manfred says is typically finalized
around July.
Yet the A ’s could be back in Oakland –
the club met, hat in hand, with city offi-
cials Thursday about a potential lease
extension – or in Sacramento or perhaps
Salt Lake City.
That latter option is a particular bug-
aboo, given its location one time zone
and more than 700 miles away from
Oakland, which makes drawing up a
rough draft schedule almost impossible.
“We need to know before then exactly
where it will be,” says Manfred. “Be-
cause it will impact travel issues if
they’re not settled.”
An even bigger complication: The re-
ported $67 million to $70 million in local
TV revenue that A ’s owner John Fisher –
strangely cash-poor in his fraternity of
billionaires – would forfeit if the team
resides outside the San Francisco Bay
Area.
“There’s conflicting considerations
that point you in different directions,”
says Manfred of Fisher’s $70 million in-
centive to play in an empty Coliseum in
a lame-duck market. “It’s not an easy
choice as to where to be, but I do think
they have been thorough in exploring
their alternatives.”
Less thorough are specifics for Las
Vegas and how the club will stuff a
domed stadium on a 9-acre parcel in the
soon demolished Tropicana Hotel and
Resort. The clock is ticking on demoli-
tion, groundbreaking and construction
should the club hit its desired 2028
opening.
“I am confident that the deal in Las
Vegas is solid. That the A ’s will build a
stadium in Las Vegas and play there in
2028,” says Manfred. “We believe the
parcel is adequate for a major league
ballpark.
“The delay in renderings is due to dis-
cussions between Bally’s and the A ’s of
what’s going to happen there to make it
most efficiently designed to make it the
best possible experience for fans.”
Swan song begins
Stadium issues for Oakland and the
Tampa Bay Rays stretch back well into
previous commissioner Bud Selig’s ten-
ure, and Manfred was cautiously opti-
mistic both situations – with the Rays
angling for a new stadium in St. Peters-
burg – will be resolved before his tenure
is complete; Manfred clarified Thursday
that he will step aside before the 2029
season.
Yet expansion likely won’t be com-
pleted on his watch, although Manfred
indicated the process may be narrowed
down in that stretch. And it’s fair to
wonder what the game and how it’s de-
livered will look like by then.
For now, Manfred ticked off the ex-
citement of opening the season next
month in South Korea with Shohei Oh-
tani’s Dodgers debut, a prospects show-
case that jazzes up the middle of spring
training and a Cardinals-Giants game in
June at historic Rickwood Field in Ala-
bama, a tribute both to the Negro
Leagues and to Willie Mays.
It adds up to what Manfred antici-
pates will be a “great year.” Beyond that,
the game – or at least how you’re able to
watch it – might look significantly dif-
ferent.
MLB’s 2025 season will be transformative
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USA TODAY
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred talks with the media on the state of the game Thursday at George M. Steinbrenner Field. KIM KLEMENT NEITZEL/USA TODAY SPORTS TAMPA, Fla. – Rob Manfred can see
the end from here. And he’s also certain
when he’ll step away as Major League
Baseball commissioner.
Manfred on Thursday stated explic-
itly that he will retire when his third
five-year term expires in 2029.
Manfred was first elected commis-
sioner after multiple ballots in August
2014 and was awarded two five-year
extensions by owners.
Aspring commissioners have until
the end of this decade for their résumés
to be polished.
“Look, I’m 65,” Manfred told report-
ers at Grapefruit League media on the
first day of workouts at the New York
Yankees complex. “I just started a five-
year term. You can only have so much
fun in one lifetime.
“I have been open with (owners) that
this is going to be my last term. I said it
to them before the last election in July.”
Manfred’s tenure has been marked
by his aggression, be it in collective bar-
gaining agreements, rules changes and
perhaps most infamously his imposing
of a lockout after the 2021 season, lead-
ing to a nearly four-month impasse with
the MLB Players Association.
More recent innovation, such as in-
stalling a pitch clock, have played to bet-
ter reviews.
Yet one issue Manfred feels will not
be resolved by 2030 is expansion. The
Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas –
likely not a net positive when the
Manfred legacy is examined – along
with uncertainty in TV distribution and
revenue and franchise values have put
his dreams of a 32-team league on the
back burner.
“I hope I’m here to go to opening day
(in new stadiums) as commissioner for
both Tampa Bay and Las Vegas. Expan-
sion, I don’t think realistically those
clubs will be playing before I’m finished.
I would like to have the process in place
and operating before that.”
Manfred confirms that 2029 will be his final year
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USA TODAY