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The Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to the executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers requesting information on MLB’s antitrust exemption.
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Fascinating development around MLB’s antitrust exemption: The Senate Judiciary committee this morning sent a letter of inquiry to the advocacy group Advocates for Minor Leaguers seeking info on how the exemption affects labor practices in the minors. <a href=”https://t.co/Az2DvrFYE4″>pic.twitter.com/Az2DvrFYE4</a>
The committee said it’s “[seeking] information about how baseball’s antitrust exemption is impacting competition in the labor market for minor league ballplayers as well as the operations of minor league teams.”
The second question in the letter reads: “What effect does the antitrust exemption have on the incidence of lockouts and work stoppages at the MLB level, and what impact do these incidents have on minor league players and teams?”
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.
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