As partnerships with the gaming industry continues to grow, and more websites catering to gambling emerge, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) has formed a committee with designs on proactively updating their constitution to allow clear guidance on expectations for their members.
Tuesday at the Baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville the topic was discussed with the hopes of voting to accept the recommendations next year.
While not all facets of the proposed update have been finalized, the focus has been to remove conflicts of interest. One example would be a writer that has been assigned a vote for one of the major awards such as MVP or Cy Young would be required to recuse themselves from voting if they wished to wager on the same award.
