World Series champion pitcher David Wells took a swipe at MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred in an interview with OutKick's Ricky Cobb Wednesday.
David Wells, a retired World Series champion pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, among other teams, took a swipe at MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Wednesday. Wells appeared on OutKick’s 'The Ricky Cobb Show' and called Manfred the 'worst commissioner in the game,' accusing him of trying to change the game too much. The critical remarks came in a discussion about pitch counts.
Cobb noted that Wells regularly threw more than 100 pitches in games during the 1999 season when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays. Wells said pitchers no longer do things pitchers used to do when Wells played. Instead, pitchers are too focused on pitching to zones. 'They don’t play long toss. They don’t do anything,' Wells said. 'They work on the analytics of the game, zones that they got to pitch in, but we had to pitch in zones all the time.
We are comfortable with the way the clock and the violations, particularly late in the game in high-leverage situations we’ve been watching, have been managed,' Manfred said. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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