MLB Shows Its True Colours Once Again

The other day, Florida Governor Ron De Santis signed a bill that allows MLB not to pay the minimum wage to minor league players. So despite a bargaining agreement and a federal law that forced MLB to pay their farm team players the minimum wage, the clock is turned back in the state of Florida.

In 2018, United States Congress amended a federal law that required MLB to pay minor league players an in-season weekly salary that equals the minimum wage of a 40-hour work week. At the time it stood at a $290.00 a week, the equivalent of $7.25 per hour.

In order to save about $700,000 per year, the multi-million dollar business that MLB is , cut two Minor League levels and founded a draft league, so they could keep an eye on talented players without having to pay for them.

But clearly that wasn’t enough. The greedy MLB owners prepared a bill to be introduced in the Florida House of Representatives. This bill exempts MLB from paying the minimum wage to minor league players in the state of Florida.

So despite a bargaining agreement for minor league players, that was approved by 99% of minor leaguers, MLB owners are chickening out.

Bill SB 892 would amend the Florida Minimum Wage Act to include federal law exemptions for Major League Baseball’s players in the minor leagues. The bill would effectively exclude players from receiving minimum wage.

It is hard to believe that club owners that make millions, if not billions of dollars per year, are too greedy to pay a decent wage. There is only one word for it: disgusting.