Careful on signing summer league contracts

hokieone5,000+ posts

The Coastal Plains League today filed a suit seeking to prevent a player from playing in another league that had originally signed with a CPL team. The player, a freshman, signed early but wanted to play in another league with a couple college teammates. The league refused to give him a release. They're going so far as to seek a temporary restraining order.

The CPL contract has a noncompete clause broad enough to keep a signee from coaching T-ball (It prohibits "all baseball activity, compensated or uncompensated", at any other location.)

Suing a 19 year old kid is just stupid but players should read the contracts. This player is no doubt a good prospect, but probably not the second coming of Stephen Strasburg.

7/2/109:37 PM

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