Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., met with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Monday, days after pushing him to rescind a plan to scrap 42 minor league teams after next season. The 2020 Democratic White House contender has urged Manfred to back away from a plan to eliminate the low-level teams, saying it would harm the sport and players. “I very much hope that Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball can resolve their differences in a way that maintains professional baseball in all of the communities that currently have it," Sanders said in a statement following the meeting. CRUZ MOCKS SANDERS' PLEA TO STOP MLB FROM ELIMINATING MINOR LEAGUE TEAMSHe wrote that Congress would monitor the negotiations between MLB and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, which oversees the minor leagues. In a Nov. 25 letter to Manfred, Sanders called the plan “an absolute disaster for baseball fans" and pushed for higher pay for minor league players and to make it easier for them to join a union.

Source: Fox News December 03, 2019 03:22 UTC