Emancipation of the Minors

With this baseball season comes a new collective bargaining agreement, negotiated by Major League Baseball?s owners and players association this offseason. As it usually does, the MLBPA secured a minimum wage increase; by 2014, the lowliest major leaguer will earn at least half a million dollars. But the labor deal also sets new limits on the bonuses paid in the amateur draft, which the players? union gets to negotiate even though they don?t represent draftees. Indeed, today?s major leaguers rarely hesitate to sell out their eventual replacements: In the agreement that took hold in 2007, the players signed off on a change that kept minor leaguers out of free agency for an extra year. Gene Orza, who recently retired as the MLBPA?s No. 2 lawyer, says there?s nothing wrong with that. ?We don?t represent them,? Orza told me, referring to minor leaguers, ?and have no obligation.?

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