Before everyone great New York Mets player becomes a big league star, he starts off in the minor leagues.
While everyone knows about the millions of dollars that MLB players are paid to play the sport of baseball, fewer people know about the poverty-level wages that minor league players receive.
Minor leaguers aren’t paid during spring training and in the offseason, so playing baseball only pays them five months out of the year. When they are paid, they aren’t given much.
Even with a very tiny pay raise going into effect in 2021, Triple-A players will only make $14,000 over a 5-month season.