Already gearing up for a fight with the players' union, MLB has another legal battle on its hands involving -- in this case, former -- employees.
Five retired umpires have sued MLB for failing to deposit the proper amount into the umpires' pension plan, according to the New York Post and several other news outlets. At least two dozen umpires were underpaid, according to the suit, but only five of the most prominent names are included in the lawsuit.
And those names are a who's who of the most notable umpires of the past several decades, including Joe West and Gerry Davis.
Just those five named umpires are owed roughly $2 million, according to the suit.
"They retired in their mid-to-late 60s, and under the unique structure of the umpires' pension plan, MLB tried to shortchange them," attorney Paul Holmes was quoted as saying by USA Today.
All five umpires had retired by the end of the 2024 season with at least 25 years of service time and more 21,000 combined regular-season games under their belts.