5 Biggest Takeaways from This Week's MLB Action

Baseball has a new pope.

After a couple of failed tries, Rob Manfred has been installed as the new MLB commissioner by a unanimous vote of baseball's 30 owners, per the MLB Public Relations Twitter account. While the league's bosses were meeting in Baltimore, there was plenty of action on the field.

The blocking-the-plate rule was exposed as the dumbest regulation in baseball. Plus, two big fish of the 2014 season, including David Price's Detroit Tigers, have endured nightmare weeks. 

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