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"This season, Major League Baseball players will have a new tool at their disposal in the form of a mobile app. But it's for use off the field.\nThe Major League Baseball Players Association, the union that represents all Major Leaguers, has created an app designed to help players connect with resources they need for managing their careers.\nSee also: 50 Stunning Sports Photos From 2013\nThe app includes tools that make it easier for players to negotiate contracts, learn about benefits and manage the details of the business side of their careers while on the go.\nGreg Bouris, the director of communications for the MLBPA, said there are varying levels of savviness when it comes to technology in the league.\n\"There are some players who are ahead of the curve, there are some who don't have much interest in it,\" Bouris said. \"However, what they all have in common is a mobile device. By creating the app, we're putting the union in the palm of the hands of every Major Leaguer.\" \n\nMLBPA's mobile app connect major league baseball players with resources from the Players Association.Image:  MLBPABy giving players tools to negotiate better contracts or learn about reputation management on social media, the MLBPA is hoping the app will make the business side of players' careers more transparent, said Prasant Varghese, an analyst at Icreon Tech, the company that developed the app for the MLBPA. \n\"They were looking at providing more services for players so they could connect with them more easily,\" Varghese told Mashable. \"The Players Association has this really strong vision for connecting everybody.\"\nThe app, which is available on iOS and Android, has both English and Spanish versions, with a Japanese version in the works.\nAnyone can download the apps, but only MLB players can access the app's content.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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