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Minor league baseball players have been sent a card to vote on making the Major League Baseball Players Association their collective bargaining representative. According to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, the MLBPA will represent minor league players and it is expected to be announced on Labor Day.
Unionization would represent a seismic change in the way the minor leagues have operated for more than a century.
The Major League Baseball Players Association announced first steps in an effort to unionize minor leaguers. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.
In what could mark a monumental change for minor league players and for MLB alike, the MLBPA sent authorization cards to all minor league players.
Al Avila, in the Tigers' front office since 2002, was fired as Detroit's general manager as the team struggled this season.