https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32419545/major-league-baseball-require-teams-provide-housing-minor-league-players-starting-2022-sources-say

Owners need to build small apartment complexes near stadiums. House the players, and lease the rest

Yeah this should have been done a really long time ago. 

This is big for the players, can't believe they haven't done this before 

3 hours ago, marlinsmaniac said:

Yeah this should have been done a really long time ago. 

Owners like to make money.

Providing housing eats into that profit line.

4 hours ago, Das Texan said:

Owners like to make money.

Providing housing eats into that profit line.

Of course, I meant I’m surprised it was never something required by MLB in general. Then again, I shouldn’t be since a few years ago when asked about their unlivable wages Manfred said Minor league baseball was more like an apprenticeship or an internship so the minimum wage/labor requirements basically didn’t apply. They need an MiLB players union.

7 hours ago, marlinsmaniac said:

Of course, I meant I’m surprised it was never something required by MLB in general. Then again, I shouldn’t be since a few years ago when asked about their unlivable wages Manfred said Minor league baseball was more like an apprenticeship or an internship so the minimum wage/labor requirements basically didn’t apply. They need an MiLB players union.

They have abused the antitrust exemption they have in the United States to get around shit like this for decades, tbh. 

This is great news for the minor leaguers, and as said should've been done some time ago.