{"id":710551,"date":"2026-06-02T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:44:09","slug":"stanton-an-honor-to-serve-as-mlb-competition-committee-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710551\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanton: \u2018An honor\u2019 to serve as MLB competition committee chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

After chairing MLB\u2019s competition committee for the past seven years, Mariners owner John Stanton will be moving to chair the league\u2019s business board. <\/p>\n

Giants owner Greg Johnson will succeed Stanton as competition committee chair, though Stanton will remain on the committee. Tuesday marks the start of committees at the MLB Owners\u2019 Meetings in New York. <\/p>\n

Stanton\u2019s tenure will be defined by the implementation of several successful pace of play rules designed to speed up the game, most notably the pitch clock. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an honor,\u201d Stanton told SBJ. <\/p>\n

Stanton was asked by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred if he would chair the competition committee in 2019 under the previous structure. <\/p>\n

The Mariners owner also credited deputy commissioner Dan Halem for getting the joint committee approved in the last CBA negotiation in 2022. The 11-member committee, including six owners\/management executives, four active players and one umpire is responsible for adopting and modifying the sport\u2019s on-field rules. <\/p>\n

Stanton also singled out former MLB exec Chris Marinak, now with Playfly Sports<\/a>, as the original pioneer of a bulk of the rule changes.<\/p>\n

Asked what he\u2019s most proud of, Stanton responded: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pitch clock is clearly No. 1 because it addressed what I think was the biggest problem that we had. The game that I remember growing up was 2 hours, 30 minutes. When we got up 40 minutes higher than that I think it was hurting the industry. It\u2019s harder to have a family come to the game, watch the game, and we were affecting the demographics of our fan support. We were disappointing our fans. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pitch clock was the most controversial thing we worked on and the most important thing that we got done.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After chairing MLB\u2019s competition committee for the past seven years, Mariners owner John Stanton will be moving to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,85],"class_list":["post-710551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}