Longtime ESPN baseball writer Keith Law saw his contract in Bristol expire at the end of the year. It was an opportunity to find a new home, and it looks like he has. Law is the latest addition to the staff of The Athletic.
Keith Law’s work at ESPN largely focused on roster analysis. He will continue to rank and evaluate prospects for The Athletic. He wrote that he also will focus on labor negotiations as we head toward a new round of CBA evaluations, which have become news outside of the sports world.
“One of the many other reasons I came to The Athletic was the chance to write about labor issues in baseball, which will only become a more important topic as we head toward the next CBA negotiations, and as Major League Baseball’s proposal to realign and consolidate the minor leagues continues to attract unhelpful attention from various presidential candidates,” Law wrote in his introductory essay.
Law had been with ESPN since 2006. Most recently his writing was part of ESPN+, so he is used to his content being behind a paywall.
