Analyzing Every Rule of Rob Manfred's Tenure! | 1125

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)

Jomboy Media

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to talking baseball.
0:03.5	We are checking in the state of the game where we've been.
0:07.3	How has Rob Manfred done?
0:09.8	About a decade later, let's see what we've got.
0:14.3	Let's talk ball even.
0:19.2	Paul Hamels.
0:21.3	Oh, tough one.
0:22.1	Brett Butler.
0:23.4	No.
0:26.9	Zach Bunn.
0:28.1	Honch it.
0:30.4	Hello and welcome to talking baseball.
0:32.4	Talking baseball is pernetic butt presented by the fanatics markets where fans trade on sports.
0:56.3	Fanatics markets available now on the app store. I'm Jake Store Ellie. That is Trevor Plouffe. Rob Chiracco produce and Don't Feely on our sheet. And it's a big one today. We're zoomed out, people. We're checking in on the state of the game. We've seen a lot of changes in the past couple years, and it's, you know, easy to every here and there be like, yeah, pitch clock good.
0:59.1	But we want to dive into some of these things.
1:01.3	There's a lot of stuff we forgot.
1:04.5	Chase Utley rule.
1:06.8	My God.
1:07.9	That, yeah, going back to 2015, going over some of the highs and lows of kind of the Manfred regime
1:13.8	and where we're at with baseball and maybe a little bit of where we're going.
1:17.1	So Coach Trev, how are you?
1:20.1	Do you see what I'm doing here?
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