Manfred: If MiLB Players Get Raise, Teams will Be Folded

[waroriole]

Does the NFL play college football players? The NBA?

Are they professionals? Drafted by an NFL or NBA team? They have no affiliation with the pro league.

[CheeryO]

The NFL and NBA definitely don't pay college players, but they also don't control those players like they do minor leaguers. NFL has no minor league so its hard to compare that. NBA D League players earn $13,000-$25,000 during the season, $40 a day per diem on the road, housing and in season accomodations are provided. Im not saying they need to be paid more but they should at least provide somewhere to live in season.

Great points. Minor Leaguers should be allowed to play anywhere they like just like college players, if the comparison is apt. MLB is really doing everything it can to lose its anti-trust exemption.

[DrungoHazewood]

So basically what is the lowest someone could get paid?

Less than a $1000 a month during the year, nothing in the offseason. So, like $6000 a year. Minimum wage at 40 hours/week for half a year is something like $8000.

[DrungoHazewood]

www.mlbtraderumors.com

If a team has, say, eight affiliates or equivalent that's in round numbers 200 MiLB players under contract. Let's pick a number and say they average $25k/player/year. That means the sum of all Orioles minor leaguers would make about what Pedro Alvarez does. If you doubled their salaries they'd make a bit more than Yovani Gallardo. Those are guesstimates, but probably in the ballpark.

The folding teams stuff sounds a lot like the hyperbolic exaggeration you hear from any business advocate about any tax or regulation or law that might possibly impact them in any way. Since all external influences are declared apocalyptic it's hard to separate truth from fiction.

I don't doubt that nearly free labor is one reason MLB teams feel free to control 90% of the best players in the world, and some players would shift to indy leagues and foreign leagues if salaries were forced up.

[Bahama O's Fan]

Less than a $1000 a month during the year, nothing in the offseason. So, like $6000 a year. Minimum wage at 40 hours/week for half a year is something like $8000.

Thanks. I'm not aware of the inner workings of the minors.

[Chavez Ravine]

Less than a $1000 a month during the year, nothing in the offseason. So, like $6000 a year. Minimum wage at 40 hours/week for half a year is something like $8000.

I (half) jokingly suspect there are quite a few Texas high school football stars who make more than that "working" at the car dealership.

[glenn__davis]

Less than a $1000 a month during the year, nothing in the offseason. So, like $6000 a year. Minimum wage at 40 hours/week for half a year is something like $8000.

Of course many of them get fairly significant signing bonuses that should last them for a while, and they do get daily meal money, correct?

Not saying they shouldn't get more money because they probably should, but there is a bit more there than meets the eye.

[weams]

Are they professionals? Drafted by an NFL or NBA team? They have no affiliation with the pro league.

That's what you have to do to get into their unions. It's not like you get scouted in the pickup games.

[weams]

Of course many of them get fairly significant signing bonuses that should last them for a while, and they do get daily meal money, correct?

Not saying they shouldn't get more money because they probably should, but there is a bit more there than meets the eye.

25 dollars meal money per day when away from home. Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches in the clubhouse at home on a road trip. Unless a major leaguer is on rehab. Or Doc Shorebird is around.

[weams]

If a team has, say, eight affiliates or equivalent that's in round numbers 200 MiLB players under contract. Let's pick a number and say they average $25k/player/year. That means the sum of all Orioles minor leaguers would make about what Pedro Alvarez does. If you doubled their salaries they'd make a bit more than Yovani Gallardo. Those are guesstimates, but probably in the ballpark.

The folding teams stuff sounds a lot like the hyperbolic exaggeration you hear from any business advocate about any tax or regulation or law that might possibly impact them in any way. Since all external influences are declared apocalyptic it's hard to separate truth from fiction.

I don't doubt that nearly free labor is one reason MLB teams feel free to control 90% of the best players in the world, and some players would shift to indy leagues and foreign leagues if salaries were forced up.

They do have an anti trust exemption. Which they defend rigorously.

[DrungoHazewood]

Of course many of them get fairly significant signing bonuses that should last them for a while, and they do get daily meal money, correct?

Not saying they shouldn't get more money because they probably should, but there is a bit more there than meets the eye.

If you define "many" as the top 3, 4, maybe 5 rounds of a 30+ round draft and none of the undrafted free agents. And "significant" as one-in-30 or 40 get several millions, and 80% or more get less than what many posters here earn in a month or two. What kind of bonus does a 15th round pick get? $4k and a bus ticket to spring training?

[Can_of_corn]

They do have an anti trust exemption. Which they defend rigorously.

Wouldn't you?

[DrungoHazewood]

25 dollars meal money per day when away from home. Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches in the clubhouse at home on a road trip. Unless a major leaguer is on rehab. Or Doc Shorebird is around.

And don't they owe the clubhouse guy half or 2/3rds of their per diem for the clubhouse spread?

[DrungoHazewood]

They do have an anti trust exemption. Which they defend rigorously.

If only the Federal Leaguers had won their case.

[Can_of_corn]

And don't they owe the clubhouse guy half or 2/3rds of their per diem for the clubhouse spread?

Probably varies by team.