We’ve been beating the drum for the underpaid minor league ballplayers around here for quite some time and we haven’t been alone. Articles like this one by Joon Lee highlighted the problems that minor league ballplayers face with housing and how ballplayers were forced to live in, frankly, unacceptable conditions because of their low wages and jobs where it’s not unusual to have to relocate several times a year.
The good news is that MLB has finally agreed that this situation could not continue and teams have agreed to provide free housing for most minor league ballplayers.