Rob Manfred Tabbed as Baseball’s Next Commissioner Over Werner

Rob Manfred will succeed Bud Selig as Major League Baseball’s 10th commissioner after being selected over Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner in hours of intense deliberation and seven rounds of voting by team owners.

Manfred, 55, has been an MLB employee since 1998 and began overseeing day-to-day management of the commissioner’s office last year, when he was promoted to chief operating officer less than a week after the 80-year-old Selig said he’d retire.