Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed allegations baseball intentionally juiced the baseball used this season:

“Baseball has done nothing, given no direction for an alteration in the baseball,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. “The biggest flaw in that logic is that baseball somehow wants more home runs. If you sat in an owner’s meeting and listened to people talk about the way our game is being played, that is not the sentiment among the owners for whom I work. There is no desire on the part of ownership to increase the number of home runs in the game. To the contrary, they’re concerned about how many we have.”

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“Manipulation of the baseball is a great conspiracy theory,” Manfred said. “How you manipulate a human-dominated handmade manufacturing process in any consistent way, it’s a smarter human being than I.”

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Manfred goes on to say that if they do decide to change the ball to reduce home runs, they would be transparent about the process. So why not be transparent now? Why not show the records for the last five years of where Rawlings bought their supplies, from the yarn to the leather? What is the turnover rate in workers? Have the needles used to stitch the ball changed? Let that information loose on the internet, and the very smart people who love to analyze baseball might come up with an answer.