Whether you consider them greedy because they’re millionaires, or not greedy because they’re fighting for a pot of money with billionaires, the MLBPA exists to create better financial opportunities for its members: major league baseball players.
So you would think the union would be active where it sees money earmarked for players being withheld, siphoned, or anything but properly dispersed. And this should be benefiting the A’s, as well as the A’s ability to remain in Oakland.
Yet it isn’t. Why?
Revenue sharing is clear: that money is supposed to go towards leveling the playing field by offering teams like the A’s more payroll flexibility.