Overview

• Tatis filed a lawsuit Monday in San Diego County Superior Court to void a 2017 agreement he signed as a 17-year-old minor leaguer.
• The contract gave him a $2 million advance in exchange for 10 percent of his future earnings, obligating him to pay up to $34 million under his current $340 million, 14-year Padres deal.
• His complaint accuses Big League Advance of operating as an unlicensed lender that used exploitative, predatory tactics to push illegal loans on vulnerable young players.
• He is seeking public injunctive relief to block BLA from enforcing similar deals with other minor leaguers.
• The lawsuit references a 2016 MLBPA warning against BLA’s business model and echoes Francisco Mejía’s 2018 suit alleging unconscionable tactics.