{"id":251699,"date":"2025-10-26T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251699\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:56:09","slug":"rob-manfred-feels-positive-about-mlb-in-2028-l-a-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251699\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Manfred feels ‘positive’ about MLB in 2028 L.A. Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As Shohei Ohtani<\/a> leads a wave of international baseball popularity, major league officials are working with the players\u2019 union and LA28 officials to conclude an agreement for major league players to participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n

The concepts on the table include an extended Olympic break during the 2028 season, which could include an All-Star Game in San Francisco to keep baseball\u2019s best players on the West Coast for two weeks rather than shuttling them around the country, and an Olympic baseball schedule that could start before the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

There is no final deal. But, for the first time over years of discussions, commissioner Rob Manfred<\/a> said publicly that the owners have stopped wavering about whether to interrupt the major league season for a week so that baseball\u2019s biggest stars can play in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am positive about it,\u201d Manfred said Saturday at the World Series<\/a>. \u201cI think the owners have crossed the line in terms of, we\u2019d like to do it if we can possibly make it work, but there are logistical issues that still need to be worked through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manfred suggested that major leaguers participating in the Olympics might be a one-time event. Stopping the season for one week and flying players to Los Angeles, he said, would be very different than stopping the season for two weeks in 2032 and flying players to Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chances that we\u2019re playing in Brisbane? Difficult,\u201d Manfred said. \u2018\u201cWay more difficult than being in L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manfred said the World Baseball Classic would \u201cremain our centerpiece\u201d for international competition. With a Canadian team in the World Series, and with Ohtani as the face of the sport, ratings and merchandise sales are soaring outside the United States.<\/p>\n

In the Olympics, Ohtani would play at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cShohei has just absolutely been the greatest benefit to the game you can imagine throughout the year,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cIn the LCS, he had probably the greatest game of all time<\/a>, and we are fortunate to have him here in the World Series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As Shohei Ohtani leads a wave of international baseball popularity, major league officials are working with the players\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[12939,1558,12156,40691,137032,4281,137033,137031,363,15553,9099,5190,3956,99,1975,19632,2394],"class_list":["post-251699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-all-star-game","tag-baseball","tag-discussion","tag-first-time","tag-l-a-olympics","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-major-league-official","tag-manfred","tag-mlb","tag-player","tag-rob-manfred","tag-season","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-week","tag-world-series","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}