Former MLB scouts have filed a lawsuit claiming teams used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to fire veteran scouts to avoid paying higher salaries.
“When Major League Baseball makes a big deal about traditions, and honoring those traditions, and then it does something like this, it’s destroying its own brand,” Goodman said. “If you’re trying to be America’s pastime and then suddenly people who have been involved in America’s pastime for 30 or 40 or 50 years are completely locked out, there is something wrong.”The suit names 17 plaintiffs, ranging in age from 55 to 71, all but one of whom had scouted for at least 24 years.
“These guys, when they’re let go, they’re not given a year of severance, they have no health insurance, no paycheck,” Ingalls said. “A lot of guys who are 55-60 when they’re fired can’t take pensions without penalties until they’re 65. They can’t get Social Security until they’re 62. They have no health insurance.
“We all understand that there are changes when there is a regime change, but I’ve been in the business for 40 years, and I’ve never seen anything close to this. … The term they used was a ‘natural reduction in workforce.’ Major league teams still employ scouts in the post-”Moneyball” era, but the essence of the lawsuit is that what was billed as a drive for efficiency and streamlining was used as a fig leaf for disposing of older and higher-salaried scouts.
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