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That was Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred discussing the salaries of minor league baseball players before Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game.
Minor leaguers are paid much less than the major league players, often earning under $15,000 a season — which is less than most jobs in America, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and only a few grand over the poverty line. But Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America that he disagreed with “the premise of the question” that players in the minors…
