Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 08, 2007
Coonelly For President

According to this report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Frank Coonelly will be the new president of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Here's some background on him from Bronx Banter:

Frank Coonelly may be the most powerful person in baseball you've never heard of.

Coonelly's job title is chief labor counsel for Major League Baseball. One AL executive told me that so far as he knew, Coonelly "coordinates our side on the arbitration stuff" and that he is on management's committee on salaries and relations with the union. Doug Pappas, who is the chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research's Business of Baseball Committee, puts it this way: "Coonelly is in charge of monitoring compliance with suggested draft bonuses and free-agent negotiations."

Coonelly was at the heart of the collusion allegations heard in the early part of this decade. Some thought he was a human information bank. It would have been collusion for MLB to keep that on a computer, but some feel baseball got around that by having everything go through Frank. It doesn't seem like the choice to make if you want someone who'll get along well with the players or their agents.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:35 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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He's probably just a guy we've never heard of.

Looks like he's cronies with MLB brass who obviously call the shorts for the Pirates, as long as the Pirates are suckling from the teet of the revenue sharing cow.

Selig has spoken!

Posted by: SimplyUnbelievable at September 9, 2007 01:59 AM
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