Originally posted on MLB Trade Rumors | By Steve Adams | Last updated 1/25/21
The Major League Baseball Players Association rejected the league’s most recent proposal to implement a universal designated hitter, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported Monday morning in a larger, broad-reaching look at the issues facing the two parties. MLB offered up a universal DH and a willingness to rule in favor of two players on a pair of service time grievances, per Rosenthal, but in exchange it sought an agreement on expanded playoffs, the implementation of a pitch clock and a spring training trial run with electronic strike zones, among other elements.
Monday Tigers News: Spring is around the corner
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As we close out January we are inching ever closer to the date we can look forward to pitchers and catchers reporting to spring camp. We continue to await major moves, and are witnessing small spurts of minor activity, unless we’re looking at the Nationals who just signed Brad Hand, or the Lions who appear to be divesting themselves of generational talent in the name of a retool (for the first time in twenty years I think I prefer my Browns fandom here). While we wait to see if anything else of note is going to occur for the Tigers, let’s look at some links.
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Eugene Freedman serves as counsel to the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and also writes about baseball labor relations in his spare time. On January 19th, Eugene was kind enough to chat via phone with me and answer my collective bargaining questions. If you’re interested in baseball’s labor talks, I recommend following Eugene on Twitter.
Tim Dierkes: Can you explain your background a little bit?
Eugene Freedman: Sure. So I work for a national labor union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. I work in the office of the president and handle a lot of different things, including collective bargaining for the union. I’ve been involved over the course of my career in approximately nine term contract negotiations and not all of them with the air traffic controllers. When I was in law school, back in, I guess it was the fall of 98, I clerked at the National Labor Relations Board full-time. So I have some
Green Bay A s?
Because of Pro Sports Leagues: NFL, MLB & NBA, .the Green Bay Packers are the only Community owned team in Pro Sports. You can blame the Fishers all night & all day for A s problems & shortfalls but they did not create this system of Rich Team, Poor Team ,
…the Leagues Created It , Own it , Love it & Absolutely Hate Community Ownership .
An interesting & serious article regarding collective bargaining but my favorite takeaway? …out of the mouths of babes:
Dierkes It’s interesting. My ten-year-old daughter said to me the other day, What does that mean, ’owner? And I said, Well, they own the team. Then she says, Do they manage the team? Do they coach the team? And I said, No, they don’t. They just collect the profits off of the other people’s work. And she said, I don’t know why we need them. It was kind of an interesting viewpoint because she sees teams she’s played on and there are coaches and there are players, but there’s