Per Jeff Passan and Jon Heyman, the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals have committed to paying their minor league players $400 on a per-week basis through August 31, roughly around the same time the MiLB season was set to end. Players will also have full access to all of their benefits, including health insurance.
This comes two days after the Seattle Mariners alerted their own minor league players that they would be paying them through the 2020 season, following the PR disaster of the Oakland Athletics’ decision to cut payments to their minor leaguers and personnel.