Some-of-the-Money Ball

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Income pools could change the way baseball players, and maybe the rest of us, think about how we get paid. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.7	Do you want us to introduce you in this story with your baseball walk-up music?
0:11.5	No, no, no.
0:14.0	Okay, no good.
0:15.0	We don't need that, no.
0:16.0	We might do it to you anyway.
0:17.4	Just warnin' you.
0:18.4	Okay.
0:19.4	Okay.
0:20.4	In the night, baby, not a duck.
0:23.0	Like a creature we're not.
0:26.2	Logan, ice!
0:31.9	I first met Logan Ice at baseball spring training.
0:36.0	That's the practice time before baseball season starts.
0:39.0	You've been with the Indian story.
0:40.4	Yeah, drafted by the Indians in 2016, yes, here.
0:43.2	Logan is 24 years old.
0:44.7	He plays catcher and he's built like a catcher.
0:46.7	He's square and muscular, picture like a nine-volt battery with legs.
0:51.4	Three years ago, Logan was playing college baseball.
0:54.9	He was eligible to be drafted by a major league baseball team.
0:58.9	And if you happen to turn on the TV on the night of the draft, the baseball experts really
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