An old interview showed that Rob Manfred was vehemently against the Golden At-Bat rule he's now considering
In an unearthed video from a 2015 Dan Le Batard Show interview, Jon “Stugotz” Weiner pitched the very idea of the Golden At-Bat to Manfred, calling it a “Magic At-Bat.” Instead of once per game, Stugotz wanted managers to be able to use it four (or five) times.