WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) on a bipartisan request to the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball for information regarding the impact of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) antitrust exemption on minor league players and teams. In a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the senators sought information about the impact of this unique exemption on a range of issues affecting Minor League players, including contract rights, team contraction, lockouts and work stoppages and treatment of international prospects.
“May 29, 2022 marked the 100-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unilateral creation of MLB antitrust exemption in the case Federal Baseball Club v. National League. As we mark this anniversary, we seek information about how MLB’s antitrust exemption impacts the league’s structure and operations, with a focus on the exemption’s impact on competition in the labor market for minor league ballplayers, as well as the operations of minor league teams. Your answers will help inform the Senate Judiciary Committee’s analysis of the necessity of this century-old exemption,” the senators wrote.
On June 28, the senators sent a similar bipartisan request for information...
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