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MLB Might Eliminate Its Most Controversial Rule

Ahead of next season, the MLB Joint Competition Committee has proposed several key changes to the game.

Sports Illustrated

Players Choice Awards: Cody Bellinger wins NL Comeback Player of the Year

The MLBPA revealed the winners of the Players Choice Awards on Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Adam Wainwright Adorably Cited His New Puppy As the Reason for His Retirement

The pitcher received a special gift from the Cardinals earlier this month.

Sports Illustrated

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Minor League Baseball Unionization One Year Later: ’Now We Just Get to Play Baseball’

Players will be paid over the offseason for the first time in a game-changing and life-changing shift.

Sports Illustrated

Air quality concerns delay Pirates game, cause tempers to flare between players, MLB

Baseball has often been described as a kids game.

Tribune News Service

Minor Leaguers Reach First-Ever Collective Bargaining Agreement, per Report

The players’ salaries are expected to at least double after a historic agreement was reportedly reached Wednesday.

Sports Illustrated

Minor league baseball players are reportedly set to get a huge pay raise with historic CBA and fans are thrilled

This pay raise is a long time coming for Minor League Baseball!

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Scoop: Dominican Republic snags first MLB players union office outside U.S.

The announcement comes as the league and union work to enhance their presence in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Axios

Report: MLB Investigating Mets, Yankees for Colluding With Judge’s Free Agency

Any effort to suppress the slugger’s free-agent value would be considered a violation of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement.

Sports Illustrated

Aaron Judge Voted Player of the Year by MLB Peers

The Yankees slugger will hope that the honor is a sign of a more prestigious award to come.

Sports Illustrated

The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB

Players were already fuming over their treatment. Enter a motley crew of career minor leaguers with a plan.

Sports Illustrated

Labor battle with Minor League Baseball?

The grueling life of a minor leaguer has bocame the stuff of legend, explored in films like "Bull Durham"

Salon

Manfred: MLB Prepared to Recognize Minor League Players Union

The MLBPA sent out union authorization cards to minor leaguers last month.

Sports Illustrated

The Good, the Bad and the Meh of MLB’s Rule Changes

Regular readers of this newsletter know I disagree with Rob Manfred frequently. His handling of MLB labor issues is callous, and at best, he is an awkward public speaker. His treatment of minor leaguers is inhumane, and he has mishandled multiple baseball cheating scandals. For all of these ...

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More than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize

Most minor league players make less than the federal poverty line. The Major League Baseball Players Association has asked MLB to voluntarily recognize the unionizing efforts.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLBPA asks baseball management to accept union for minor leaguers

The MLBPA, which reached its first collective bargaining agreement for major leaguers in 1968, launched the minor league unionization drive on Aug. 28.

Sports Illustrated

MLBPA Has Majority Support for Minor League Union

The MLBPA needed over 50% of players to sign the authorization cards in order to ask MLB for voluntary recognition.

The Conversation

America's next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball

When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all.

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Five Things to Follow Five Weeks Before the Playoffs

In five weeks, we’ll be watching playoff baseball. Because of the new 12-team postseason format, this is the first year in which there will be four best-of-three Wild Card Series, two in the AL and two in the NL, as opposed to the single one-and-done game in each league. This…

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MLBPA’s Efforts to Unionize Minor Leagues Didn’t Happen Overnight

In an interview with SI, Tony Clark discussed the push to represent minor leaguers and what it could mean for baseball.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred is a labor lawyer. Now minor leaguers could unite against MLB.

Rob Manfred did not make his name in baseball as a former player, as a general manager or team president or team owner, or as a marketing or broadcasting executive.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs MLPBA rep Ian Happ weighs in on push to unionize minor-leaguers

The MLBPA announced it launched a campaign to unionize minor-league players after receiving “overwhelming support” from its executive board Sunday.

Sports Illustrated

What You Need to Know as the MLBPA Pushes to Unionize the Minors

This is a monumental step toward improving working conditions for minor leaguers, but there’s still a long road ahead.

Tribune News Service

MLB Players Association takes first steps to unionize minor leaguers

The Major League Baseball Players Association, which represents nearly 800 active baseball players, is seeking to add minor league players to its ranks, representing a labor shift that would allow the younger athletes to collectively bargain for better wages and playing conditions.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLBPA makes push to unionize minor leaguers

The players’ association said Monday it is circulating union authorization cards among players with minor league contracts to form a separate bargaining unit from the big leaguers.

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