Major League Baseball teams will be required to provide housing for its minor league players, beginning with the 2022 season. , which is significant for minor league players in the games 120 affiliates. MLB agreed to the change after pre sure for advocacy groups for minor league players.This means players for the Rangers four minor-league affiliates will have the housing burden Josh Tomlin Jersey taken off their shoulders in 2022, both at home and on the road. The Rangers have affiliates in Kinston, North Carolina (Down East Wood Ducks, Low Cla s A), Hickory, North Carolina (Hickory Crawdads, High Cla s A), Frisco, Texas (Frisco Roughriders, Double Matt Joyce Jersey A) and the Round Rock Expre s (Round Rock, Texas, Triple A)Its not clear how MLB teams will handle paying for the housing. But, ESPN quoted a pair of baseball executives Chipper Jones Jersey who said that it would cost an MLB team le s than $1 million per year. This is the latest development in a multi-year effort on MLBs part to restructure the minors. That included doing away with minor league affiliates, restructuring leagues and improving player salaries in 2021 by 38 to 72 percent, per MLB. Scroll to ContinueHowever, salaries are nowhere near what players receive at the MLB level. Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates of Minor Leaguers, told ESPN that, even after the increases, most player salaries are below $15,000 per year. Also, players dont receive pay Josh Donaldson Jersey between the end of one season and the beginning of the next. Those salaries range from $290-500 per week at the Low Cla s A level to $502-$700 per week at the Triple A level.This movement actually began in 2021. The Houston Astros were the first MLB team to cover all lodging, at home and on the road, for all of its minor league players. Other teams provided Kurt Suzuki Jersey stipends or free accommodations at certain affiliates. The Rangers have housed playerswho work out at their spring training complex in Surprise, Arizonawith a dormitory-style housing facility called Rangers Village. The complexopened in 2020.