Atlanta 'in the mix' to host 2025 All-Star Game after outcry over Georgia's voting laws, commish says

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Two years ago, Major League Baseball opted to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Colorado in response to Georgia's voter laws.

But hours before the 2023 midsummer classic, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Atlanta is "in the mix" to host the game two years from now.

Manfred was "not prepared to go past that right now," but said Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston are also candidates.

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A general view of Truist Park during the National Anthem before a game between the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals on July 4, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Brett Davis/Getty Images)

Manfred said back in 2021 that Atlanta would "certainly be an option at some point in the future," but not unless change "I would need to see" was made, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

However, no laws have changed since they were implemented.

The law places new restrictions on voting by mail, adds voter ID requirements and limits ballot drop boxes. It also mandates two Saturdays of early voting ahead of general elections, an increase from just one, and leaves two Sundays as optional. The law also bans outside groups from handing out food or water to those waiting in line to vote. 

Manfred's decision to move the game out of Atlanta in 2021 came via pressure from Stacey Abrams, sources told Fox News Digital at the time.

Abrams told a senior league official that she wanted him to denounce the Georgia voting rights law, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. People associated with Rev. Al Sharpton's civil rights organization, and LeBron James's voting right group, "More