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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, April 18, 2021Yahoo Sports Braves’ Sean Kazmar Jr. makes it back to MLB after 12 years in minor league
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Posted: April 18, 2021 at 11:46 PM | 16 comment(s)
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1. Cooper Nielson Posted: April 19, 2021 at 12:21 AM (#6014211)League, singular? You mean, there's only one minor league left now...?
I've read that the AAAA types that bounce back and forth do pretty well, as much as $100,000 p.a. Kazmar doesn't seem to be quite that good though.
There are some random internet claims that one day is lifetime medical, but neither of these claims pass the smell test.
Here is a video from a guy (with 18 career MLB games) who says it isn't true, and a commenter says you are eligible for MLB health plan on day 1, but not lifetime medical.
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/f7s300/matt_antonelli_1_day_in_mlb_lifetime_health/
Older references say you need 43 days to get a $34k pension.
Of course, all these numbers depend on when you elect to draw on the pension.
If there are any recent actual pension documents on line, I'd love to see them.
a young Adrian Gonzalez
Brian Giles
MLBPA boss Tony Clark
Jim Edmonds (!)
Greg Maddux (!)
Trevor Hoffman
Randy Wolf
Glendon Rusch
$700 a week is not terrible for a young guy starting out, as you also get some of your living expenses covered during the season, but it's hard to support a family on that, especially when it's only 5 months a year. (You definitely need an off-season job and/or a better-paid partner.)
Sporting News article from a couple of months ago, after mentioning the $14,700 minimum salary over five months at AAA:
Players, especially at the Triple-A level, can make more money, for a variety of reasons. For example, landing on the 40-man roster comes with an automatic increase — players are immediately covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between MLB and the MLBPA and make $46,000 a year on their first MLB contract, playing in the minors. For a second MLB contract, the minimum jumps to $93,000. Players who have signed minor league free-agent deals can make significantly more money.
I don't know what Kazmar's 40-man roster status has been over the years, but I would hope he has at least benefited from some type of time-based raise for veteran players. Wow, he spent 7 straight years at Gwinnett (8 if you could 2020, when they didn't play any games). The weird thing is, he was never really a "regular," usually playing in around 100 games of a 140ish-game season.
At AAA, though, a guy on the 40 man making $100K and a kid making $700/week are living massively different lives but doing the same job.
- i heard that claim as far back as 04 when i first started blogging. I remember cheering any guy who came up for even a day even if he didn't throw a pitch or get an AB because now he had lifetime health ins. i'm pretty sure i got that from my mama and it surprised me that it isn't true seeing as how she is not almost ever wrong about baseball stuff, but maybe i didn't hear it from
- that guy, i swear he talks like the most annoying grrl like EVAH. takes 15 minutes to make a simple point.
- i'm positive i heard this one too
Jordan's second retirement?
Dave Stieb's final 2 MLB seasons were 1993 and 1998.
Bob Cousy's for NBA were 1963 and 1970.
(I assume we're looking for something like a 5-game minimum to account for stunts like Minnie Minoso.)
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