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8/18/2013 06:44:00 PM
Gavin Ewbank
Alex Rodriguez and legal team have started the process of filing a medical grievance against the New York Yankees within the last two weeks, reports Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York. A-Rod's lawyers contacted the MLB Players Association earlier this month to formally begin the process, claiming that the Yankees have mishandled his medical treatment since the postseason last October.
These reports come just a day after A-Rod's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, accused the team of hiding A-Rod's MRI results of his hip, and continued to play him in the 2012 postseason despite having a torn labrum in his left hip.
“They rolled him out there like an invalid and made him look like he was finished as a ballplayer,” Tacopina said. A-Rod would eventually have hip surgery in January.
Rodriguez's side is also sending out claims that Yankees team president Randy Levine told A-Rod's hip surgeon, Dr. Brian Kelly, that if Rodriguez never saw the field again Levine would be fine with it. Kelly relayed that message on to A-Rod and was told that it gave him chills.
Of course, Levine and the Yankees have denied all the allegations directed towards them.
According to the reports by Marchand, "Rodriguez's attorneys contacted the players' association via a phone call within the last two weeks, sources said. Notifying the union is the first step that could eventually lead to a formal grievance between the Yankees and Rodriguez in front of MLB arbitrator Frederic Horowitz.
"Horowitz is already set to hear Rodriguez's appeal of his 211-game suspension for violating MLB's joint drug agreement and collective bargaining agreement. That arbitration is not expected to conclude until November, at the earliest.
"Disagreements between clubs and players are brought to the union's attention regularly, but generally are kept private. There are four main steps in the process. The player and/or his representatives contact the players' association about their disagreement with the club. The union does its own research before contacting MLB officials. MLB and the union work with the club and player involved to figure out a settlement to avoid a hearing. If the two sides can't mediate the matter themselves, it is brought in front of Horowitz to decide.
"An MLB spokesman said no one at the league office has officially been contacted by the union about Rodriguez's claims. The Yankees also have not been told about the grievance process beginning. A union spokesman said, as a practice, the players' association does not discuss when it is notified about disagreements between a team and a player."
Rodriguez has said numerous times that he believes the Yankees and MLB are conspiring to keep him off the field, and save the Yankees of the nearly $90 million remaining on his contract for the next four years. He was recently suspended for a record 211-games for his role in the Biogenesis scandal, but is allowed to play during the appeal process, as part of MLB's Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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These reports come just a day after A-Rod's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, accused the team of hiding A-Rod's MRI results of his hip, and continued to play him in the 2012 postseason despite having a torn labrum in his left hip.
“They rolled him out there like an invalid and made him look like he was finished as a ballplayer,” Tacopina said. A-Rod would eventually have hip surgery in January.Rodriguez's side is also sending out claims that Yankees team president Randy Levine told A-Rod's hip surgeon, Dr. Brian Kelly, that if Rodriguez never saw the field again Levine would be fine with it. Kelly relayed that message on to A-Rod and was told that it gave him chills.
Of course, Levine and the Yankees have denied all the allegations directed towards them.
According to the reports by Marchand, "Rodriguez's attorneys contacted the players' association via a phone call within the last two weeks, sources said. Notifying the union is the first step that could eventually lead to a formal grievance between the Yankees and Rodriguez in front of MLB arbitrator Frederic Horowitz.
"Horowitz is already set to hear Rodriguez's appeal of his 211-game suspension for violating MLB's joint drug agreement and collective bargaining agreement. That arbitration is not expected to conclude until November, at the earliest.
"Disagreements between clubs and players are brought to the union's attention regularly, but generally are kept private. There are four main steps in the process. The player and/or his representatives contact the players' association about their disagreement with the club. The union does its own research before contacting MLB officials. MLB and the union work with the club and player involved to figure out a settlement to avoid a hearing. If the two sides can't mediate the matter themselves, it is brought in front of Horowitz to decide.
"An MLB spokesman said no one at the league office has officially been contacted by the union about Rodriguez's claims. The Yankees also have not been told about the grievance process beginning. A union spokesman said, as a practice, the players' association does not discuss when it is notified about disagreements between a team and a player."
Rodriguez has said numerous times that he believes the Yankees and MLB are conspiring to keep him off the field, and save the Yankees of the nearly $90 million remaining on his contract for the next four years. He was recently suspended for a record 211-games for his role in the Biogenesis scandal, but is allowed to play during the appeal process, as part of MLB's Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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