MLB Network Cuts Ties With Top Correspondent

“As MLB Network continues to look at fresh ways to bring baseball to our viewers, there is a natural turnover in our talent roster that takes place each year,” an MLB spokesman told The Post. “Ken played a significant part at MLB Network over the last 13 years. From spring training to the winter meetings, we thank him for his work across MLB Network’s studio, game and event programming, and wish him the very best going forward.”

Ken Rosenthal out at MLB Network due to previous criticism of Rob Manfred https://t.co/wmBjxztfh9 pic.twitter.com/qpAqp2UKaE

— New York Post (@nypost) January 3, 2022

Rosenthal confirmed he was done at MLB Network and confirmed he will continue to work at The Athletic and Fox Sports.

Can confirm MLB Network has decided not to bring me back. I’m grateful for the more than 12 years I spent there, and my enduring friendships with on-air personalities, producers and staff. I always strove to maintain my journalistic integrity, and my work reflects that. 1/2

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 4, 2022

Nothing else is changing for me professionally. I am proud to remain part of the great teams at The Athletic and Fox Sports. 2/2

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 4, 2022

in a column published back in June with the headline “Rosenthal: Manfred must strike a deal with the players or ruin his legacy,” the reporter accuses the commissioner of “performing a massive flip-flop”

“[Manfred] and the owners, supposed stewards of the game, are turning the national pastime into a national punch line, effectively threatening to take their ball and go home while the country struggles with medical, economic and societal concerns.

Baseball is a business, we all know that. But it is a business that former commissioner Bud Selig describes as a social institution with social responsibilities, a business that holds an antitrust exemption, distinguishing it from every other professional sports league. Such a business should hold itself to a higher standard, but in these talks, if you can even call them that, Manfred and the owners keep sinking lower. Unless making dead-on-arrival proposals, tone-deaf public remarks and other assorted blunders is your idea of negotiating savvy.”

When you’re on the MLB payroll, you just can’t say some things.

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