About this episode

Ethan Hullihen joins Darragh McDonald to discuss the new Payroll Tracker and insights on MLB team payrolls.

MLBTR's newest contributor, Ethan Hullihen joins Darragh McDonald to discuss his work on the Payroll Tracker that was recently launched by MLB Trade Rumors. He talks about how he got started doing such detailed work, how his partnership with MLBTR came to be, what he hopes for from the next CBA, and some clarifications of commonly misunderstood terms and rules that affect team payrolls.

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Host: Darragh McDonald

Guest: Ethan Hullihen

Topics covered

• MLB payroll
• CBA
• Payroll Tracker
• baseball finance
• team payrolls

Keywords

• MLB
• payroll tracker
• CBA
• team payroll
• baseball finance

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Organizations: MLB Trade Rumors

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