After originally deciding to stop paying minor league players as of June 1, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher changed course on Friday.
According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, Fisher is now committed to paying minor league players their weekly $400 stipend through the end of the scheduled minor league season.
“I changed my mind after spending a lot of time talking to our team,” Fisher said in the Chronicle story. “I concluded I’d made a mistake.”
Fisher noted that team president Dave Kaval, vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane and general manager David Forst were part of the conversation.