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The Mets Won’t Let Minor Leaguers Use the Fancy New Clubhouse They Built

Sign stealing is getting all the attention these days but the most shameful thing in baseball is actually how minor league players are treated. Because their salaries are so embarrassingly low (and only paid out during the season), the majority of players in the minors have to work offseason jobs just to scrape by.

If I ran a baseball team, I’d pay my players enough money so that they could train all winter and become better baseball players, rather than drive a UPS truck. But maybe that makes too much sense.

Not spending money on players is one thing.