Episode Details

With the recent expiration of Major League Baseball’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, Alex and Bobby are taking some time to break down key concepts that will be on the table in the coming weeks and months and examine what’s at stake for each side.

To round out the series, they bring on Nathaniel Grow, associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University, to take a look at baseball’s opaque revenue sharing system, parsing out how the system works for or against certain owners, what sets it apart from other sports’ models, how MLB’s antitrust-exempt status play into this and other CBA fault lines, what potential recourse the players have if they really want a fight, and much more.

Follow Nathaniel Grow on Twitter at @NathanielGrow

Links:

The CBA ABCs: Salary Arbitration (feat. Jerry Blevins & Kevin Goldstein) 

The CBA ABCs: Competitive Balance Tax (feat. Maury Brown and Lindsey Adler) 

Contextualize these discussions with our CBA crash course 

Songs featured in this episode:

Title Fight — “Mrahc” • Jennifer Lara — “I Am In Love” • The Bitter Tears — “Bachelors Say” • Booker T & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”