Ex-scouts file age discrimination lawsuit against MLB

A group of former Major League Baseball scouts sued commissioner Rob Manfred, the league office and all 30 teams on Wednesday, contending age discrimination, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver and contends MLB "blacklisted" older scouts and used the pandemic and the trend toward analytics as a "pretext for coordinated and systemic discrimination based on age."

The lawsuit