[BostonCard]

I don't follow MLB and I wasn't aware that there were restrictions to a free market for the labor of free agents.  Sounds like anti-trust laws should be invoked.

Yes, it should, but for the fact that baseball has an anti-trust exemption based on a US Supreme Court ruling dating back to 1922 on the (somewhat quaint but ridiculous basis) that baseball is a game, not a business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Ba...nal_League

The solution is for congress to pass a law that revoked the exemption, and congress has threatened to do so from time to time but has never done it.

And to bring a Stanford angle to it, here's an article interviewing some Stanford law professors about it...

https://news.stanford.edu/2015/02/24/ant...rt-022415/

BC

[BostonCard]

I don't follow MLB and I wasn't aware that there were restrictions to a free market for the labor of free agents.  Sounds like anti-trust laws should be invoked.

Yes, it should, but for the fact that baseball has an anti-trust exemption based on a US Supreme Court ruling dating back to 1922 on the (somewhat quaint but ridiculous basis) that baseball is a game, not a business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Ba...nal_League

The solution is for congress to pass a law that revoked the exemption, and congress has threatened to do so from time to time but has never done it.

And to bring a Stanford angle to it, here's an article interviewing some Stanford law professors about it...

https://news.stanford.edu/2015/02/24/ant...rt-022415/

BC