People are complaining about minor league pay once again. Universal free agency solves the problem. No draft, no reserve clause. If a team wants to employee a good player for a long time, sign that player to a long-term contract. If someone needs to develop, go short term and see if the player works out. It’s a lot more work for front offices, but these legal challenges would be gone, since everyone would be working for an agreed salary, rather than an imposed salary.

I am glad this is happening, however. MLB’s complete take over of the minor leagues ends over a 100 years of reducing minor league baseball to a training ground, rather than competitive leagues for smaller jurisdictions. Along with universal free agency, let’s allow the minors to be completely independent, and compete with all the other baseball leagues for players.