For the love of the game: Life as a minor leaguer on $8,000 a year

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For the love of the game: Life as a minor leaguer on $8,000 a year
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Players in the big leagues make millions of dollars but it can be a financial struggle for players further down the ladder. And that was before Covid-19

By the end of January, John O’Reilly was champing at the bit to get to spring training. Like most minor leaguers, the 24-year-old pitcher, newly assigned to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, viewed baseball’s preseason as a mecca of opportunity. Sure, O’Reilly who played last season in Double-A, minor league baseball’s second-highest level, wasn’t expecting to make it to the majors and become the Pirates’ opening day starter.

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