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Bad Bunny’s Sports Agency Gave Improper Gifts to Players, MLB Union Says — Including VIP Tickets

Bad Bunny's sports agency gave VIP tickets to players, the MLB unions representing players says in responding to a lawsuit Rimas filed last month.

Rimas Sports sued the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) last month, claiming the union had used a “pre-determined investigation” to ban the Puerto Rican agency to protect existing agents from competition. But in a response filing this week, attorneys for the union said Rimas had incurred the punishment through its own “unethical conduct” that had broken MLBPA rules — namely, offering splashy and valuable gifts to prospective clients to win them over. Launched in 2021 by Bad Bunny (Benito Martínez Ocasio) and his longtime manager, Noah Assad, Rimas Sports aimed to provide homegrown representation to Major League Baseball’s many players from Latin America.

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