Rob Manfred says he loves baseball
But it doesn't matter if he's giving cachet to those that don't.
If you polled 100 baseball fans about Rob Manfred, you’d probably hear 100 different reasons why they don’t like the MLB commissioner. Over the years, I’ve heard people express dissatisfaction with him for things like changing the rules (too often and/or too aggressively), being stoic and calculating, treating the minor leagues like a leper colony, and …