Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said nothing is off the table when it comes to potential expansion, including the return of a second MLB team to the Bay Area.

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agree that the game is doing well. “When I look at the game right now — the game, the business — our sport is really thriving,” commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday at a meeting with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Now that the All-Star Game has come and gone, there will be two days of radio silence before the 2025 MLB season recommences its march to the playoffs.

The league hasn’t announced a date or host city for the ’28 All-Star Game yet, but All-Star Games typically fall on a mid-July Tuesday, making July 11, 2028 a likely date. That would be three days before the Olympics’ opening ceremony on July 14, potentially creating a longer downtime than the league or players want.

If you think the sport’s next labor standoff is a ways away, you’re not listening to the executives who say it’s affecting today’s decisions.

Major League Baseball faces a potential lockout in December 2026. Players and management have long clashed over salary cap proposals, a format that union head Tony Clark criticizes as harmful to competition and player salary guarantees.

One of the things that makes baseball so unique is the impact that weather has on the sport. Roughly 2-3% of all Major League Baseball games are either delayed or postponed due to the weather. Here are the top 10 games that were impacted by Mother Nature.