MLB ‘fight’ over not paying minor league players during Spring Training

While Spring Training for MLB players is in predicament due to work stoppage and the lack of agreement between the owners and the MLBPAin minor leagues the situation is very different, with everything continuing as normal, with even already having dates for than the preseason in MiLB start in the next few weeks. However, in the minors he also has his own work problems and struggles.

According to information from Evan Drellich of The Athletic, in a hearing on a lawsuit filed by a group of minor league players more than 8 years ago, an MLB lawyer argued before a judge the organization’s position of keeping players without pay. MiLB players during Spring Training.

The MLB attorney argued that “it is the players who benefit the most” from Spring Training despite the fact that they are not paid, which is paid for by the teams and MLB as an organization, in addition to the fact that they “learn skills” that will help them to life, claiming that they are paid with “experience”

Drellich mentions that the attorney, who charges MLB $775 an hour, mentioned that MLB spends about $2,200 for a week of Spring Training on players, which is even more than some minor leaguers make in the entire year

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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MLB ‘fight’ over not paying minor league players during Spring Training