MILWAUKEE -- Bud Selig is convinced baseball's economic structure is broken. How to fix it is another thing.
"The system has to be changed and it will be changed," the baseball commissioner said Wednesday.
Selig said he was not surprised by the signings of several free agents to huge contracts during the last week. Leading the way was Alex Rodriguez's 10-year, $252 million pact with the Texas Rangers.
"The inequity in this system is now so apparent," Selig said. "The question is, how do we fix it and what do we do?"
Selig said he was confident a new framework can be put in place, but he did not go into any details.
Wendy Selig-Prieb, who succeeded her father as president and chief executive officer of the Milwaukee Brewers after he became commissioner, said the big-money signings "got everybody's attention."
"There needs to be meaningful reform in the economics of baseball," she said.
Selig-Prieb said in the meantime, the Brewers were trying to focus on things they could control, such as the construction of Miller Park.
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