<p>I certainly wouldn’t argue that minor league baseball is a glamorous life, but I did think it offered a viable path to the major league for talented players who aren’t college material.</p>
<p>I don’t know how viable it is for a 17-year-old American kid to go play football in Europe… do/did they use NFL Europe for that or for players that got “bumped down” from pro teams and hoped to get bumped back up?</p>
<p>Yeah, the salaries for minor league are pretty bad… I found these from back in 2004:
Class AAA–First year: $2,150/month, after first year no less than $2,150/month
Class AA-First year: $1,500/month, after first year no less than $1,500/month
Class A (full season)–First year: $1,050/month, after first year no
less than $1,050/month</p>
<p>But still… I’m not convinced that a minor league system is worse that making college ball the only viable pathway to the pros. Would anyone say that a young actor HAS to go to college? A young musician or painter?</p>
<p>I trust your better judgment regarding the current minor league system, hops_scout, but is the college-only solution really better?</p>