Brian Sloan remembers how happy some of his minor league baseball players were to be treated to a free meal.
Sloan spent 19 years running business operations for the Mariners’ Class A Everett AquaSox affiliate, where players earned about $1,000 per month. He said some Latin American players sent any meager disposable income to their parents back home and then scrounged up food wherever they could.
“We’d take a player out to do (public) appearances and take them out to lunch after and they were really appreciative,’’ said Sloan, who left the team in 2014 to work for a sports promotional company.