{"id":18771,"date":"2014-05-15T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-to-form-succession-committee-to-find-seligs-replacement\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:30:03","slug":"mlb-to-form-succession-committee-to-find-seligs-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-to-form-succession-committee-to-find-seligs-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB to form succession committee to find Selig&#8217;s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Commissioner Bud Selig and the Major League Executive Council announced on Thursday the formation of a succession committee. The majority of their work will be focused on the selection process of the game&#8217;s next commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a seven-member committee to act on behalf of the Executive Council in overseeing the succession process and collecting the input of all 30 MLB teams.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals owner and CEO, Bill DeWitt Jr. will be the committee&#8217;s chairman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our committee will conduct a thorough, discreet process and ultimately will provide guidance to the Executive Council on identifying a successor,&#8221; DeWitt stated. &#8220;All of the parties involved share the goal of acting in our game&#8217;s best interests, and thus we will refrain from commenting out of respect for the confidentiality of the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other members are Philadelphia Phillies president &amp; CEO David Montgomery; Colorado Rockies owner &amp; CEO Dick Monfort; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim owner Arte Moreno; Pittsburgh Pirates chairman Bob Nutting; Minnesota Twins CEO Jim Pohlad and Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.<\/p>\n<p>Selig&#8217;s current term ends on Jan. 24, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Commissioner Bud Selig and the Major League Executive Council announced on Thursday the formation of a succession committee. The majority of their work will be focused on the selection process of the game&#8217;s next commissioner. It will be a seven-member committee to act on behalf of the Executive Council in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18775,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}