SEATTLE — Atlanta is a candidate to host the 2025 All-Star game, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday morning.
During his annual Q&A with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America during All-Star week, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked Manfred about when Atlanta could next host the event, be it 2025 or later.
“Atlanta is in the mix of clubs for the ’25 All-Star game,” Manfred said. “I’m not prepared to go past that right now.”
Atlanta was supposed to host the 2021 game. MLB announced in April 2021 that it would relocate the event in response to Georgia’s new voting law.
Colorado hosted the event instead. The AJC asked Manfred during that week when Atlanta could receive the event in the future — and what, if anything, he’d need to see changed — and he responded: