After taking backlash for furloughing most of its baseball and business operations and cutting weekly stipends for its minor leaguers, the Oakland A’s are reversing course and making amends.
Reclusive owner John Fisher penned in a statement that the decision to cut off minor league stipends at the end of May was “a mistake.”
“After spending the last few days listening to the important input from our fans and others, we will immediately begin paying our minor league players,” Fisher said in the statement. “These players represent our future and clearly our decision to not pay them was a mistake.