Isn't about players that eventually make it to the Major Leagues, the minimum Major League salary is 414,000 dollars, US, more than many people will make in a lifetime, and it's going up. The signing bonuses aren't exactly restrictive, I believe I read the top is going to be 11 mil and it goes down slowly from there. I'm not worried about the top 15 guys being able to negotiate for their 12th or 13th million, or guys who raise their demands and go in the 3rd Round to the Yankees because they have the money to spend on the guy and use the fact that other teams aren't going to touch him for affordability reasons to essentially get extra 1st round picks.
The only players to whom the Minor League salaries matter are the guys who don't get draft bonuses, and will continue to not get draft bonuses. Only occasionally do the guys who are drafted after say, the 3rd round, go to the majors. Those guys don't get bonuses, or if they do, they're pretty meager, and those guys spend their careers in the minors making less than 30,000 a year.
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