Minor League Baseball Players EXPLOITED By Billionaire Owners
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2022
- Billionaire baseball owners are exploiting workers with poverty wages and 6 months of unpaid labor. Triple-A players make between $6000-15,000 per season and are not paid for attending mandatory Spring Training. Players tell us they take second jobs driving for Uber and DoorDash or working at Walmart just to make ends meet. Minor leaguers are demanding fair pay and backpay from billionaire owners for Spring Training.
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What i dont get is wouldn't it be in the team owners best interest to give decent pay, and to have good nutrition options, right?
The cost for an entire minor league farm system for one team to pay a living wage and invest an additional 10k unto training and nutrition comes to 5.8 million, or one year of Max Stassi. These guys get peanuts for what is essentially a full time job at the lowest levels. Even if all that investment does is produce someone who gets you 10 war over a 10 year career, and that's the only difference that is made, that's still an investment that gets a return of 30 million dollars. These guys should be paid more, not only because it benefits them but because it would hugely benefit their Major league teams.
I mean…the stadium is damn near empty. What do you expect?
Nice research you did... Minor League Owners don't pay the players or coaches, they just pay for the front office staff plus matinence for the home stadium.
They have to work in the off-season? 😲
I am aware of the situation my grandfather was a minor league baseball player traveled with the majors (White Sox) but World War II interrupted his career
Cry me a river, no one cares
@SAMCA San Andreas : yer typing a c-nty lil’ message though aren’t you 😂
@@Hoboscouts : yer typing a c-nty lil’ message though aren’t you 😂
@@waterwater111 I think the money was still pretty pitiful, he worked & farmed in the off season.
with baseball slowly but surely losing popularity, assume this will get worse.
Boo hoo hoo. Nobody is making you play a game.
Beyond sad
Then don’t sign the contract
No one is forcing them to play baseball.
Fantastic video. Beautifully executed. Shameful the way MLB owners take advantage of these guys.
Players should be paid $32,856 (1/2 of the average medium salary which is at $65,712). At this base pay the quality of talented minor league players WILL improve.
Mlb owners don't own these teams. The minor league team owners aren't billionaires raking in millions of dollars. Last time we went to see AA astros team we paid $12 for front row seats behind first base. These teams aren't raking it in.
Exactly. The salary is completely dependent on ticket sales. There is no TV money coming in, at that level.
It reminds me of how some people just can't seem to grasp the fact that just because the sign on the building says McDonalds it doesn't mean the owners of that particular building are a billion dollar company.
"It's strenuous on your body and the workload is more" 🤣 It's just a game. Nobody is forcing you to play baseball 🤦
Minimum salary for ALL MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS should be $100K, benefits ON TOP OF THAT INCLUDING HEALTHCARE AND SICK AND PARENTAL LEAVE. Period.
From there it could get bumped to twice that for years of service in the league.
If the player is on the roulette wheel, sent up and down etc, then TRIPLE THAT $100K.
FINALLY: nobody should attend another baseball game
UNTIL CONTRACTS ARE CAPPED 5YRS MAX, $100M MAX. Just don't watch the Mets and Lindor and the stupid greedy owners who gave that guy that money. 10% of $30-33M / yr could help HOW MANY MINOR LEAGUERS TO LIVABLE WAGES?!!!!!!
No, minor leagues don't earn enough to pay $100k plus benefits to every player. Any other ideas?
Don’t sign the contract if you don’t like it
Play another sport, give it up, or get an actual job to support your dreams.
No one is forcing them to play baseball.
lol this is not even close to new information 🤣 if you don't make it to the pros you're supposed to fall back on your education - that's your choice not to make wise decisions - hilarious how he thinks he's better than Walmart employees... these dudes sound like WNBA players 😂
Where did he say he's better than Walmart employees? Their just asking to be a paid a livable wage or to actually be paid. Unreal how you think people advocating for them to be paid in spring training is a big ask. These people are insanely talented, travel all over the country, put their bodies on the line and get paid nothing. WNBA is different in that the wnba does not bring in the revenue mlb does.
@@luigi32791 the thing is… the WNBA is expecting a huger salary increase for their players for a subpar product, just like these guys are doing. (If they were good enough… they would play in a better league and get better salaries)
@@luigi32791 they do not get paid “nothing” because they get paid at an appropriate enough level that the owners can still make money and the rest of the team gets their fair share. (They’re not playing for a professional team, they’re playing in a farm system or semi-amateur league)
@@luigi32791 if their league’s players netted some more profit, maybe the owners would shell out more money? so, they didn’t have to use their own money? (If I bought a team and just ran it because I love to watch baseball… but it’s also a farm system/semi-amateur league… and the players demanded higher pay? I’d ask them to have their parents/families/friends/ancestors/dogs/cats/lint to pay and attend games to generate me enough of a profit that it isn’t my money that’s coming out of my pockets to pay for their salary because some of them refused to understand that they don’t bring in enough money to demand a higher salary)
@@luigi32791 but sure, keep thinking that way. (I understand being charitable but I also know that giving too much money can also leave me with none)
Sorry, I'm going against everyone else here. You are playing a game. You are paid by the fans in the seats at the games you personally play in. Not by the owners for some Major League team that you hope to one day play for. This is basically the same false assumptions of the WNBA. Your league has to make money. The WNBA women shouldn't get paid more simply because the NBA makes huge amounts of money. I'd say it's a fair comparison to view yourself as like a college intern. Or as even just like a college student learning and working for that degree that might one day earn you money. But no one owes you a job at huge amounts of money unless you can add something of value.
Finally, this varies from club to club. "Minor leaguers are not paid during spring training. They receive only whatever housing, food and allowances, stipends and/or per diems their teams issue from the time they report to camp through the start of the minor league regular season, when they begin to draw their salaries." So they may not be paid during spring training but it sounds like they are housed and fed, even if it is more like camp or college dorms.
Ok, Joel.
I agree 100%
I agree with you. They deserve poverty wages.
As Brad Thompson says, if you don't like it play better.
Like the old saying goes there's always barber school.. The one guy shouldn't have had children if he couldn't support them . I never made more than six thousand a year in the military.
If you can't feed em don't breed em.
This ain't it chief. Y'all aren't full time employees making a product. Y'all are essentially partaking in a hobby. The only way to get paid is if the owners of the team and or league net enough to distribute to the players.
This is the minor leagues. I recognize it's not ideal to try and do this and feed yourself but demanding more pay that likely isn't even available to keep the league and stadiums afloat is the name of the game.
Unless you can show that your irrelevant minor league team makes a lot more in ticket sales than it pays out to its players and coaches, you deserve your pathetic salary. There is no TV cash money flowing in at your level, so most of your revenue is just tickets. If you're actually good, you'll make the big leagues and get rich later.
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go to major or get real job bro…😅