Last Thursday, the San Francisco Giants joined the rest of baseball in releasing a number of minor league prospects.
The hopes of a minor league season are dim, so the Giants chose to release 20 minor league players to marginally offset the lost revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chose is the operative word in that last sentence. This was a choice. They did not need to do this, but they did it as a way to cut operating costs.
This has been a tough week for baseball, and the strategy to cut costs by focusing on the minor league labor that struggles to make ends meet is mind-numbing.