“We don’t approve, dictate or necessarily ask clubs what they’re going to do with respect to their individual operations,” Manfred explains. “Those are local decisions that really are not part of the approval process. .. We don’t get into, ’Are you going to trade Player X or Player Y at a particular point in time?’ Nor do we ask them to make a commitment as to what they’re going to do with payroll before they’ve even got in and made an evaluation of their talent level, their ability to win with the people that they have there. That’s just not how the ownership process works.”
Source: Rob Manfred On Marlins’ Fire Sale, Long-Term Direction
Now that’s Manfred speaking about the Marlins, but read the words. You boycotters (who will boycott until the first three game winning streak anyway) think the commissioner is going to make the Wilpons sell the team? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. See you at Citi Field!
