MLB Eliminates Dues For MiLB Players, Changes Clubbies' Responsibilities In New Proposal

Major League Baseball announced well before the 2020 season that salaries for minor leaguers would increase in 2021. Now, it is adding money to players’ pockets in another way.

If adopted, MLB’s latest proposal to minor league teams will reshape how clubhouse managers (known universally as clubbies) are paid and how minor league players will be fed. Under the new proposal, MLB teams will pay clubbies and provide or pay for meals at the stadium. Clubhouse dues for minor league players (which were previously paid to clubbies) will be banned. Clubhouse dues for major league players were eliminated as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that went into effect in 2017.