{"id":8839,"date":"2014-08-14T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:32:41","slug":"rob-manfred-elected-as-10th-mlb-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/14\/rob-manfred-elected-as-10th-mlb-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Manfred elected as 10th MLB commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/robmanfred.jpg\" alt=\"robmanfred\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/robmanfred.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/robmanfred-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nRob Manfred has been elected the next commissioner of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfred, 55, will replace the 80-year-old Bud Selig who will step down from the position in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am tremendously honored by the confidence owners showed in me today,&#8221; Manfred said, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2014\/08\/14\/mlb-commissioner-race-down-tom-werner-rob-manfred\/is2IiOlFkJWGFxzTVQuTSI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston Globe<\/a>. &#8220;I have very big shoes to fill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mansfred beat out Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner. A third candidate in Tim Brosnan dropped out of the race prior to voting.<\/p>\n<p>Selig had ruled baseball since 1992 after being part of a group of owners who forced the resignation of Fay Vincent. He operated as baseball&#8217;s executive council until July of 1998 when he was formerly placed into the commissioner role.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfred has served as MLB\u2019s chief operating officer for the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Manfred has been elected the next commissioner of Major League Baseball. Mansfred, 55, will replace the 80-year-old Bud Selig who will step down from the position in January. &#8220;I am tremendously honored by the confidence owners showed in me today,&#8221; Manfred said, via the Boston Globe. &#8220;I have very big shoes to fill.&#8221; Mansfred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,825],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rob-manfred"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}