Rob Manfred apologized on Tuesday for his comments about the World Series trophy:

Even before being asked about it, Manfred said he made a mistake with those comments when trying to deliver a rhetorical point in an interview two days earlier.

“I referred to the World Series trophy in a disrespectful way, and I want to apologize for it,” Manfred said. “There’s no excuse for it. … It was a mistake to say what I said.”

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That’s a better apology than most of the Astros players uttered.