Article: Manfred Should End Outdated Selig Policies

[USAFChief]

If enough "youths" would refuse to play minor league baseball, the pay situation would resolve itself.

 

But I don't see any want ads asking for players to fill out minor league teams.

 

I think in their own interests, teams will start providing proper nutrition to minor leaguers. Pay? Not so much. Not until they have to.

[diehardtwinsfan]

Honestly, if they took care of housing and nutrition, they'd never need to address the pay.  If you a place to stay and food to eat, you don't exactly have a lot of costs.  I'd think both would be very beneficial to teams as a whole.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

That's the one big thing the owners have going for them. If the players don't like it, they can in theory walk away at any time. Though obviously it's not that simple for an individual to do that. 

[Steven Buhr]

If enough "youths" would refuse to play minor league baseball, the pay situation would resolve itself.

 

But I don't see any want ads asking for players to fill out minor league teams.

 

 

But isn't this pretty much the same argument that opponents of a legal minimum wage have made for decades? If an employer can adequately fill its staff with people willing to work for low wages, why shouldn't they be allowed to do so?

 

I'm a registered Republican and even I don't believe that.

 

There are a lot of businesses that, due to location or other perceived perks, would have no trouble filling their staffs with 16-22 year olds, even without paying minimum wages. I guess I just don't believe that  means they should be allowed to do so.

 

Let me put it this way... Let's say I open a business on a popular beach in Florida. I have no shortage of college kids trying to land work with me (especially if I bring in a bunch of impoverished kids from Latin America to supplement my domestic work force). 

 

I implement a compensation plan that calls for wages below legally mandated miniumum wage levels and even 10-11 hour work days much of the time, but, in return for agreeing to work for illegally low wages, I agree to hold a lottery where I put the names of every employee who has worked for me for four or more years in to a hat and draw one name to pay $500,000. Win or lose, if you're still employed the next year, your name goes in to the hat again. (Of course, any time I want to, I can simply fire you.)

 

Does that gimmick entitle me to avoid compliance with minimum wage laws, even if I have no problem finding more than enough kids to run my business?

 

After all, nobody is forcing them to choose to work for me.

Edited January 28, 2015 by Steven BUHR

[JB_Iowa]

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi  · 7m7 minutes ago 
From STATS LLC: 15,007 defensive shifts in 2014, up from 7,641 previous year. And the BABIP went UP, from .297 to .299. UP!