Kids are Signing Their Likeness Away to Youth Baseball Giant Perfect Game

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The latest move for Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball tournament and scouting service, is an expected multi-year memorabilia deal with Fanatics. While on the surface, the deal means Fanatics would produce and distribute trading cards and collectibles for Perfect Game athletes, it also raises agents’ concerns about amateur players’ rights, especially if they end up playing professionally. Brittany Ghiroli’s reporting on the impending deal for The Athletic revealed that young baseball players have already been signing their rights away to Perfect Game. She joins us today to discuss why Perfect Game and Fanatics’ marriage is potentially harmful for players and how these companies’ machinations impact amateur baseball more largely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Brit Giroli, please tell us, for those who don't know, what is perfect game?
0:06.0	Perfect game is the largest youth tournament and scouting service in the country.
0:13.0	It's, you know, if you go to their website, Clinton,
0:15.0	they tout themselves as having 2,86 MLB players,
0:21.0	14,476 MLB draft signings.
0:25.2	So they are considered the Premier Pipeline
0:29.5	to go from youth to college to the pros.
0:34.0	Britt I have a confession to make in the year 2020 I
0:38.4	Clinton Yates went and announced the perfect game
0:42.1	all-American game at brishaw Bricktown Ballpark,
0:45.4	and I was paid to do it. Let me name you some names that were on that roster, and you tell me yes or no,
0:50.7	do you recognize them?
0:51.8	Harry Ford, yes.
0:56.0	Brady House.
0:57.0	Oh yes.
0:58.0	Brady Montgomery.
0:59.0	Andrew Painter.
1:00.0	Yes.
1:01.0	James Wood and Tommy White.
1:02.0	Yes, and yes, James Wood, by the way, International, I think League Player of the Month, Player of the Week,
1:07.3	something like that. Thank you, Britt, for getting to my point, which is that perfect game,
1:11.7	if nothing else, does get the highest caliber players possible
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