As a union lawyer, my suspicion is that’s cover. “I don’t know what aspect of the law they think they’d be in violation of. “It’s a little bit of a mystery why they think this is somehow required legally,” said Jason Wojciechowski, a lawyer at Bush Gottlieb and former editor at Baseball Prospectus. And I was there for 45 years, so I saw a good number of cases at the board.”īruce Meyer, the lead negotiator for the players’ union, said MLB made the decision on its own, “and you’ll have to ask them for their reasons.” “I’ve never seen a case which had similar facts. “ I can’t think of anything,” said Dave Leach, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and a former regional director for the National Labor Relations Board. When commissioner Rob Manfred was asked last week in a news conference whether it was a legal issue, he offered two words: “It is.” But l egal experts who spoke to The Athletic found it difficult to confidently identify MLB and Proskauer’s potential legal theory.
Asked to explain the reason the league drastically altered its content vehicles, a commissioner’s office spokesperson said, “Every action we are taking is at the advice of legal counsel per the National Labor Relations Act.” The spokesperson declined, however, to identify what specifically in the NLRA or baseball’s collective bargaining agreement prompts or merits erasing current players. MLB is advised in labor relations by the law firm Proskauer Rose.
But exactly why MLB is taking this route isn’t clear.
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