Good morning, Birdland!
This won’t come as a surprise to any of you, but it turns out the folks that run Major League Baseball are the worst. Like, actual ghouls in human suits.
The latest evidence supporting this fact is a story in The Athletic by Evan Drellich that explains MLB is trying to avoid paying minor league players during spring training. You see, according to MLB, the teams get no benefit from training those young players, so it’s not fair they have to pay them.
From the piece, MLB’s lawyers say that that “It is the players that obtain the greater benefit from the training opportunities that they are afforded than the clubs, who actually just incur the cost of having to provide that training.