Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

[Theoldmole]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/what-the-spending-bill-could-mean-for-minor-league-baseball-players

The New Yorker on the little-known baseball provision in the new spending bill, which gives a $60-a-month raise to minor league baseball players making the minimum.

“It’s disturbing, to say the least,” Garrett Broshuis, a St. Louis-based attorney representing the players in their case against M.L.B., said on Thursday, of the spending-bill provision. From 2004 to 2009, Broshuis was a pitcher in the San Francisco Giants’ farm system. “You have players living below the poverty line and now the league is going to be exempt from paying them?”

Edited March 24, 2018 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Typical. It should be appalling, but few are appalled. Beyond it's deleterious effect of on baseball of the exemption, we're just shrugging our shoulders and letting the American anti-trust tradition die slowly, accepting one outrage at a time.

[Theoldmole]

How did I get the wrong link there? Fixed now.

[Guest cooby]

I guess you could argue that they are getting an education in playing baseball but those are sad salaries

[Benjamin Grimm]

The thing is, most of them are chum, needed to play ball with the subset of players who are actual prospects. Their time in the minors isn't likely to lead to a professional career. They're just delaying the start of their eventual "civilian" lives. But they're definitely providing a service to their employers, and they should be treated fairly.

[Edgy MD]

I think it is a professional career, and should be respected as such.

[ashie62]

They same to be treated with about the same courtesy as migrant workers.

[Edgy MD]

Many of them indeed qualify as migrant workers, considering most factors that make up the definition of the term.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Perhaps this could be over in a relative heartbeat if major leaguers remembered whence they came and stood up for their erstwhile brethren. It would mean at least as much to as many as most of their vanity foundations' charitable works.