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Weekend Bird Droppings: Minor league news is the only news

Good morning, Birdland!

The only thing going on in baseball right now is the Mets manager search and minor league player signings. That’s it.

It makes me think about minor league baseball’s place in all of this. The most important element there is the treatment of the players. Their wages, for the most part, are ridiculous low. The living accommodations made for them, until recently, were absurd. And then, of course, there is the amount of control teams have over them, which artificially suppresses the amount those players can make in their careers.