Minor league baseball players are rolling in the dough now -- while they’re eating it!
Minor Leaguers Taking Money Baths With Five More Bucks
↵↵Long at $20, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that minor league per diem would be increasing by $5 this year.
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“The extra five bucks will make a huge difference,” one minor leaguer said. “An eight day road trip will mean an extra $40. That helps more than they will ever know.”↵Historically, food prices have risen around 2.5 percent a year in the past 20 years, but 2007 and 2008 saw much higher climbs. Though prices leveled in the 2009 aftermath of the recession, the purchasing power of $20 for food isn’t what it used to be.
↵↵I feel like it’s the perfect time for an old-timer baseball player to pop out of the woodwork to start a incoherent ramble with, “Back in my day...” Poor old-timer.
↵It’s good to put this in perspective, though. Division I baseball players receive $35 per day and Major League ball players make close to $90 per day. This makes us all think the same thing, right?
↵Why do Major Leaguers need $90 per day when the league minimum contract is $400,000?! They can’t afford their own enchiladas and blue Slurpees with a half-million annual salary?
↵(H/T SB Nation’s Lone Star Ball)
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