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Detroit Tigers Minor League Notes

Minor League salaries will be higher this season. The minimum salary for rookie-ball players will be $400 a week, up from $290. Class-A will be $500, also up from $290. Double-A will be $600, from $350. Triple-A will be $700, from $502. (Per Baseball America.)

The latest news in the restructuring of the minors includes the replacing of longstanding league names with generic placeholder names, with MLB reportedly planning to sell branding rights to all of them. At the highest levels, there will no longer be an International League (founded in 1884) or Pacific Coast League (founded in 1903). With the caveat that logistical factors are involved, it?s safe to say that future financial gains are driving these decisions. MLB ? a multi-billion-dollar industry that has recently been laying off low-and-moderate-salaried employees ? clearly has priorities that deserve scrutiny, if not disdain. By all accounts, dollars trump history in the eyes of the deep-pocketed decision-makers.

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