As uncertainties surround the labor landscape of Major League Baseball, a former Philadelphia Phillies player and minor-league standout urged current minor leaguers to take radical collective action on Thursday evening.
“My advice to all minor leaguers: strike/ unionize,” Dylan Cozens, a Phillies outfielder from 2018-2019, said in a thread of Twitter. “Stop letting billionaire owners exploit your emotions/dreams and think logically. Most of you will never make it. Even if you do make it, playing in the big leagues doesn’t hold much value on a resume.”
Cozens, 27, has plenty of minor-league experience under his belt.