A's owner John Fisher has reversed course and decided to pay the team's minor leaguers.
Oakland had been the only MLB team to stop paying its minor leaguers during the league's shutdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. That decision was met with significant backlash, and played a role in Fisher reversing it.
"I changed my mind after spending a lot of time talking to our team,” Fisher told the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser. “I concluded I’d made a mistake."
Fisher apologized for his err in judgment. Moving forward, all A's minor leaguers will receive weekly stipends through the rest of what would have been the minor league season.