NEW YORK — Major league teams this season must notify the commissioner’s office of their starting lineups before they are announced at stadiums. The decision Thursday comes in response to the Supreme Court ruling that has led to more widespread legal gambling. Through last season, clubs announced lineups as they wanted, some by posting in clubhouses, others in email to media, on Twitter or their websites. The team may announce the lineup either when it receives confirmation of receipt by MLB or 15 minutes after sending MLB the lineups. “One new procedure is that we now ask clubs to submit starting lineups in a uniform fashion in order to reduce the risk of confidential information being ‘tipped,”‘ MLB added.

Source: National Post March 07, 2019 16:18 UTC