Minor Leaguers Don't Get Paid For Their Likeness in MLB The Show 20 Until They Are Added to MLB Roster

[Jeffrey Smith]

I’m not home to check but does 19’ have a futures game during the all star break. If not perhaps they’ll add it now.


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[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffrey Smith

I’m not home to check but does 19’ have a futures game during the all star break. If not perhaps they’ll add it now. Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

Yes it does


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[HenryClay1844]

I love how none of the posts are about the injustice of the minor league players not being paid for their likenesses and are instead all about complaints about the game or complaints about complaints. Sports fans sometimes are the worst. Can't see beyond their own tv screens.*

[JoshC1977]

Quote: Originally Posted by HenryClay1844

I love how none of the posts are about the injustice of the minor league players not being paid for their likenesses and are instead all about complaints about the game or complaints about complaints. Sports fans sometimes are the worst. Can't see beyond their own tv screens.*

I struggle to consider anything an "injustice" when a person has a choice as to whether or not to sign a contract. Are minor leaguers underpaid (even after recent news of a salary bump) and underappreciated? Yes, absolutely! But sometimes you have to take that crummy, semi-exploitative job to get the experience you need for something way better in the future.

Should they be compensated for their likenesses? That's a slippery slope because how do you do it for just a video game and not all the other stuff (like minor league teams using their likeness for promotions). How to you determine how much to pay them? Do you do it individually or make it a blanket compensation? If the latter, is it really fair to pay "Joe Blow" Quad-A slugger the same as "Hotshot Prospect A"? Once you determine that they should be compensated for their likenesses, you've now opened up layers upon layers of questions/issues.

It's a tough topic....that's for darn sure.

[onegroove7]

Honestly, they better not make a big stink out of this. I feel like with the NCAA athletes there's more of a controversy. Minor leaguers are still professionals... they get paid right?

There's something fundamentally wrong with a person who gets paid to play baseball for a living complaining about anything.

[goillini03]

Quote: Originally Posted by onegroove7

Honestly, they better not make a big stink out of this. I feel like with the NCAA athletes there's more of a controversy. Minor leaguers are still professionals... they get paid right? There's something fundamentally wrong with a person who gets paid to play baseball for a living complaining about anything.

Hard disagree. Everyone should be paid for their likeness in this type of scenario, and a good portion of these guys are not making a true living by playing baseball.

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by goillini03

Hard disagree. Everyone should be paid for their likeness, and most of these are not making a true living by playing baseball.

I'd view a few years of minor league baseball as an internship with an opportunity, not a guarantee, at a major league career. a person shouldn't expect to be well-paid for minor league baseball anymore than they should working at McDonald's or Walmart. you use those jobs as stepping stones or stopgaps. should minor leaguers make at least 60,000 a year? probably. I got no problem with that. but they should have not a backup plan for when they most likely dont play MLB baseball but a front-plan for what they'll do to make a true living once their internship in minor league baseball is over and baseball isn't part of their future. if any player feels strongly enough about being in a video game w/o proper compensation, they should take a stand and not sign any contract giving away their rights to likeness. IMO

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by onegroove7

Honestly, they better not make a big stink out of this. I feel like with the NCAA athletes there's more of a controversy. Minor leaguers are still professionals... they get paid right? There's something fundamentally wrong with a person who gets paid to play baseball for a living complaining about anything.

What is your understanding of what minor leaguers players get payed?

To put it in perspective for you, a good majority of them play for what basically comes out to below the minimum wage when you account for the hours they put in.

A majority of them have to find sponsor families to stay with or they split extremely small apartments 4 ways (or more).

They get a small per diem for food when on the road.

I could list many more but your example is ludicrous.


Sadly, there is actually a better chance that the college athletes you are referring to get much more in kickback than minor league baseball players do.