Rob Manfred patting himself on back after MLB gambling scandal is preposterous

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

Rob Manfred is the Cris Collinsworth of commissioners. He sees things so clearly after they’ve happened.

Wednesday at a meeting of MLB team owners — co-hindsight visionaries — he addressed the unraveling scandal that revealed two Cleveland pitchers, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, allegedly conspired to fix a by-the-pitch proposition “microbet” on behalf of gamblers, who might have included themselves.

Manfred: “The most important undertaking, and really the bedrock of the relationship with sportsbooks, is the ability to monitor betting and the ability to discern inappropriate patterns.

“We understood the prop-bet issue from the very beginning. I’m glad we’ve done something about it.”