While major league players make a minimum of $570,500, players with minor league contracts are not part of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association. The pamphlets suggest that MLB teams extend pay to players during the offseason and provide players with housing and three meals a day during the season.

Their message should be heard loud and clear across the industry: it is time to pay minor leaguers a living wage.”Īdvocates for Minor Leaguers said Saturday night it had volunteers handing out wristbands and pamphlets to fans outside minor league stadiums in Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska and California, along with Brooklyn, which had the only on-field player protest with the wristbands. We are proud of these players for standing up for themselves and each other. “The MLB teams they play for are worth well more than $2 billion. “The players who donned wristbands in Brooklyn today will make less than $12,000 this year,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in a statement to the AP. The financial burden has prompted players to sleep on sofas, air mattresses or floors in overcrowded apartments, play with tattered equipment, and seek charity from fans and more fortunate teammates. While some players get signing bonuses worth hundreds of thousands - even millions - of dollars upon entering pro ball, many sign for as little as $1,000.

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