A player advocacy group this week called for the Orioles and other organizations to provide more support for members of their minor league systems, claiming that some members of Baltimore’s Double-A roster were considering sleeping in their cars after the club ceased paying for housing.
Executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias dismissed the claim as “not accurate” and “a reference to hearsay.”
Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that has used its Twitter account to shed light on the working conditions minor league baseball players face in hopes of improving them, tweeted a thread Tuesday night that stated “multiple” Bowie Baysox players planned to sleep in their cars Wednesday, the first night this season the Orioles would not be paying for their housing after doing so through the first month of the season — a good deed Advocates for Minor Leaguers first publicized.