Gausman’s post quote-tweets a clip from Manfred’s appearance on the “Questions for Cancer” podcast during which the commissioner responds to deliberations about a minimum pitching requirement. Such a rule would dictate a threshold, which a pitcher must surpass before a manager would be allowed to pull them from the game.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred met with Pinellas County officials Monday to discuss the stalled decision on public financing for a new Rays stadium. County Administrator Barry Burton said he and County Commission chairperson Kathleen Peters met with Manfred to “talk through the situation.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred shot down the idea of a minimum innings requirement for starting pitchers, but Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman isn’t buying it. Manfred appeared on Foul Territory on Monday where he called an innings requirement “too blunt an instrument to fix this problem.

Blue Jays starting pitcher Kevin Gausman took to social media to let MLB commissioner Rob Manfred know what he thinks about his ideas.