When Major League Baseball plays its 60-game season starting next month, 11 players won’t get paid during it even though they hold MLB contracts, including two with Alabama baseball roots.
Atlanta Braves pitcher Grant Dayton and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jimmy Nelson are among the players whose prorated pay for the shortened season is less than the advance they received while baseball was on hold, The Associated Press reported.
Dayton prepped at Bob Jones in Madison before playing at Auburn. Nelson pitched at Alabama.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, MLB closed spring training on March 12 -- only two weeks before the scheduled start of the season.