Reply to "How To Get By In The Minors On $1,500 A Month"

Goosegg10,000+ posts

The real reason the salary is what it is has NOTHING to do with the players willing to take zero or a million (well, I guess, theoretically if EVERY player identified with a potential MLB tool decided not to play for the present salary, things would change. I guess that would be called a strike).

The reason the wages are what they are has to do with a system which is not subject to the laws of a free market.

Yes, you need to play baseball to even have a shot; but, unless you have that critical potential tool, You. Don't. Get. That. Shot - at any wage. (Although, MLB could create revenues by setting aside a couple of dozen slots in MILB and auction them off to the highest bidder regardless of potential).

1/13/177:54 PM

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