Effectively Wild Episode 590: How Much Should Minor Leaguers Make?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to pitcher-turned-attorney Garrett Broshuis about his class-action lawsuit seeking higher wages for minor league players.

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0:00.0	When you serve me and I'll serve you
0:03.5	Swing upon the zogas
0:06.4	Screw the break of law and I'll break mine
0:10.6	Get together we could have a bet
0:20.6	We'll wait up to meet so you'll know
0:26.3	Good morning and welcome to episode 590 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast
0:31.5	from baseball perspective presented by the play index at
0:34.5	baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lindbergh of Grantland
0:38.2	joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective and
0:42.0	today we have a guest he spent six seasons as a pitcher in the giant system
0:47.5	which he wrote about frequently at baseball America and the sporting
0:50.9	news among other places but that is only indirectly
0:54.4	why we are talking to him today we are really talking to him because he
0:58.4	took the LSAT three days after his last season in 2009 and
1:02.6	became a lawyer he's now an attorney in St. Louis
1:06.7	where he is leading a class action suit against
1:11.1	Major League Baseball of arguing that minor league players are not
1:16.0	fairly compensated his name is Garrett Brushhouse. Hey Garrett
1:20.2	Hey how are you guys thanks for having me
1:22.2	Yeah sure tell us a bit about the background here so you
1:26.8	filed this the suit in February and then later
1:31.5	expanded it it's it's called Senny versus MLB named after a former minor
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