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Unlock with PatreonMLB is forcing MiLB players to leave spring training, without pay or hope
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Spring training is officially over, and the Major League Baseball Players Association sent out a memo to its members telling them they could stay at the spring training facility, go home, or head to the city that their team plays in. The allowances teams give to players during spring training, like for housing, are still in effect. The on-field facilities players use to prep for the regular season will remain open to those who stay, as well, and teams will assist in flying out the families of any players who had their families with them in Arizona or Florida, to boot.
According to minor-league players spoken to under the condition of anonymity, MLB’s response was much more terse and disconcerting: go home. It was left up to each individual team to craft their own message to their minor-league players that said as much, but that was what had to be relayed from above. Go home, whether you’re a domestic or international player. Go home, because you, as minor-league players, don’t have the protections and rights to negotiating an exit as unionized players.
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Mavericks will pay arena workers during coronavirus suspension, but what about every other team?
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Giants raise MiLB player wages, subsidize housing (for some)
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Here’s why MiLB players won’t be paid for appearing in MLB The Show
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Mets’ renovated spring training clubhouse a reminder of gap between MLB and MiLB
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MLB’s planned pay raise for MiLB players is severely lacking
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One of MLB’s excuses for attempting to disaffiliate 42 minor-league teams following the 2020 season has been the need to increase pay for minor-league players. Obviously, players need to be paid more, but MLB tying these two events together is disingenuous: MLB’s owners can afford to keep every team in Minor League Baseball going and pay every minor-league player far more than they do now, and it would still be a drop in the proverbial bucket for them.
As has been said before, the average minor-league salary could be $50,000 per year, and it would cost each team about $7.5 million. That’s it! MLB is tying the disaffiliation of teams together with increasing pay as a threat to the thousands of minor-league players who will remain: this is what could happen to you and your team if you make too much noise about your pay.
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Save Minor League Baseball Task Force takes next step in the fight against MLB
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Senne v. MLB wins another court victory
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The year in creating baseball coverage, featuring leftism
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