MLB Teams Make a Significant Commitment
Throughout the day today, various teams around the MLB made a significant pledge. A pledge that gives reassurance to Baseball Operations employees that they will be paid through May 31st. Jeff Passan of ESPN had the news this evening on Twitter.
Teams that have pledged to pay baseball-operations employees through at least May 31, per ESPN sources:
– White Sox
– Phillies
– Braves
– Reds
– Giants
– Rockies
– Blue Jays
– Twins
– Brewers
– D'backs
– Cardinals
– Marlins
– Cubs
– Royals
– Red Sox
– Astros
– Mariners
– Tigers— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 21, 2020
This development is significant because it helps ease some of the concern and worry that those employees had. In addition, given the current pandemic facing the country, economic conditions are fluid and ever changing. Therefore, many employees have had to scale back on certain aspects of their personal life as well.
As any employer should do during times like this, the news regarding today’s announcement is a welcome sight. Essentially, the ownership groups for each of those teams is making a commitment to their Baseball Operations staff. It’s a commitment that helps to strengthen the business level relationship those ownership parties have with employees in their Baseball Operations division.
San Diego Padres Approach
In addition to joining the list above, the San Diego Padres took their approach one step further. San Diego has ensured all of its staff that they are going to remain employed with the organization. However, there will be pay cuts that take place following a hierarchy type of model. With more on that is Dennis Lin of The Athletic on Twitter.
The paycuts will take a top-down structure, meaning that those with the highest salaries will see the biggest reductions.
— Dennis Lin (@dennistlin) April 21, 2020
As Lin stated, the pay cuts will occur for anyone making north of $60,000 dollars. Essentially with this model, it ensures that those making the most money receive the pay cuts. In turn, those employees making under $60,000 dollars will not have a cut to their salary figure. For many of those individuals, that is terrific news.
Under this model, San Diego Padres General Manager A.J. Preller along with other front office executives and scouting staff members would take pay cuts.
Final Thoughts
In the coming days, there could be other MLB teams that are added to the original list of committing to paying employees through at least May 31st. Furthermore, there might be other teams that follow a similar model to the one mentioned above by the San Diego Padres. Regardless, all of this is great news and a nice reassurance for all Baseball Operations employees during a very uneasy period of time in the United States.
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