Reply to "MLB's "One Baseball" Plan a Landscape-Changer"

Is that article written by mlb PR department?

I don't see it quite as positively. Imo the biggest aspect of those moves is cost reduction. Minors and draft shrink permanently and players stay longer in unpaid amateur ball and semi pro independent leagues before they need to get paid by mlb.

Basically mlb is outsourcing player development and let someone else pay for it which won't bode well for the players financially.

Overall the development is very worrying for amateur players. Draft likely will stay reduced and those mlb affiliated amateur leagues probably mean even less money when mlb can keep the players in that system before signing with clubs.

8/17/203:57 PM

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