Gausman’s post quote-tweets a clip from Manfred’s appearance on the “Questions for Cancer” podcast during which the commissioner responds to deliberations about a minimum pitching requirement. Such a rule would dictate a threshold, which a pitcher must surpass before a manager would be allowed to pull them from the game.

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has downplayed the possibility of the league implementing minimum inning requirements for starting pitchers. Instead, he suggested that the league could incentivize teams to have their starters work deeper into games by altering transaction rules.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred shot down the idea of a minimum innings requirement for starting pitchers, but Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman isn’t buying it. Manfred appeared on Foul Territory on Monday where he called an innings requirement “too blunt an instrument to fix this problem.