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MLB extends Manfred as commissioner through 2024

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Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred will keep his current role through the 2024 season.

MLB owners voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a five-year extension for Manfred on a contract that was set to expire following the upcoming 2019 season.

Among other things, this will ensure Manfred oversees the next round of collective bargaining with the MLBPA. The current CBA is set to expire following the 2021 campaign.

As Bud Selig's successor, Manfred became MLB commissioner prior to the 2015 season. Originally serving as outside counsel during the 1994-95 work stoppage, Manfred officially joined MLB as a full-time employee in 1998, eventually becoming Selig's chief operating officer in 2013.

Manfred has instituted pace of play rules, including a limit on mound visits, and negotiated a new CBA with the players' union prior to the 2016 season. He replaced the 15-day disabled list with a 10-day DL, put a cap on spending for international free agents, and added stricter penalties for exceeding the luxury tax.

Among Manfred's other notable accomplishments, the 60-year-old is responsible for negotiating the league's first drug testing agreement in 2002 and led the Biogenesis investigation which sought to prove that Anthony Bosch distributed performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, and Nelson Cruz, among others.

The news comes on the same day MLB finalized a reported $5.1-billion extension with FOX for broadcasting games through 2028, according to Eric Fisher of SportsBusiness Journal.

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