When Paul Skenes arrived at the Major League Baseball Players Association board meetings in Scottsdale, Arizona, in December, he didn’t know that there was such a thing as the executive subcommittee. Alongside the 30 team representatives, the eight-man subcommittee gives the union a 38-person leadership group that votes on decisive matters. For the first two days of meetings, players sat through long presentations on the state of the industry and the upcoming negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. Skenes diligently took notes on all of it.
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