Major league baseball is taking steps to preserve their pay system for minor leaguers, which results in sub-minimum wages for the large majority of their lower-level employees. An excellent article on Fangraphs by Sheryl Ring (read here - it is very good) summarizes the consequences of adding the “Save America’s Pastime Act” as a line item in an omnibus spending bill. Lindsey Adler’s tweet summarizes:
MLB is attempting to preempt action that could force an upgrade in the treatment of their “supply chain”. As the above tweet points out, minor league baseball players could become exempt from federal labor laws.