Background Checks on MLB, MiLB Umps

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Originally Posted by SAump

Background checks on financial records, family and friends or neighbors.
Care to take a polygraph?
All thrown in with $12,000 annual salary.

IMO the real issue is having both sides clearly defining the scope of the background investigation. Once everyone knows what to expect the FUD blows away and it's business as usual.

TussAgee11 makes very valid points. Think about the potential circus a private investigator with no controls could instigate (Look at HP a few months ago).

This is something that could be negotiated in a couple of days, so long as MLB truly desires to do so. The rocket scientist at MLB may well force a merger between the umpire unions over this (AAA umpires are employees of PBUC & 'loaned' to MLB for fill-in). I would love to be a fly on the wall when Moore & Fitzpatrick figures that out!