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Perspective

Jan. 29, 2014

A-Rod calls a balk on the MLBPA

Alex Rodriguez recently filed a lawsuit against the MLBPA seeking to overturn a recent arbitration decision which suspended him for the entirety of the 2014 MLB season. By Richard M. Kreisler and Alex Polishuk


By Richard M. Kreisler and Alex Polishuk


For nearly 20 years, Alex Rodriguez terrorized Major League Baseball pitchers, amassing 654 home runs in his career, fifth best of all time. Now, Rodriguez is taking a swing at a different adversary, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), and its alleged brushback pitch delivered to him in his suspension arbitration which resulted in a 162-game suspension from baseball. A cost to Rodriguez of an estimated $...

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