…which gives 82, but I’m sure I’m leaving out plenty of people. And of course, I’m sure my numbers are wrong. And let’s not forget the fact that all of the concessions people, ushers & groundskeepers may or not be employees of the team (I think in some cities they are, whereas in other cities they’re employees of a separate Suchnsuch City Sports Authority or something).
Major league teams usually have 40 palyers under contract though for most of the season only 25 are on the actual roster (excluding any on the disabled list). On September 1st the roster limits expand to 40 and the other 15 players are brought up from the minor leagues. It’s very possible that some other minor league employees are actually employed by the parent club. And of course each major league club has a number of scouts.
The Giants are the employers of all guest service staff, as they own the ballpark and parking lot. They do have their own security staff, but outside security contractors and SFPD are also used for some games. I beleive the portwalk behind right field belongs to the City, so that’s usually patrolled by SFPD.
I have no numbers to offer, but I expect the numbers to vary greatly.
“Rich” teams like the Yankees and Braves would not only probably have larger staffs in general, but they also have “scouting camps” in Latin America that “poor” teams like the Brewers and Pirates cannot afford. IIRC, the Braves have camps in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and some Central American country (Costa Rica?). Even with just 5 employees per camp, that adds 15 employees to the “rich” teams’ payrolls.
A major league team in fact usually has between 100 and 150 players on the payroll, depending how many minor league teams they operate. Up to 40 are on the major league roster, though for contractual reasons not all will be called up after September 1.
Plus the team employs scores of managers and coaches, who work with all those minor leaguers.
Each team maintains quite a few ‘roaming instructors’ and ‘roving scouts’ who’s job it is to go where they’re told and do what needs to be done. Plus there are a lot of ‘special services’ contracts for retired players to keep them on the payroll and helping with PR.
Anna Benson (and you) are assuming all the people involved would actually be willing to have sex with her, though.
Anyways, firstly I should clarify that the Major league team does not employ everyone in their farm system (as I sort of fell this post implied.) Farm teams are independently owned (although at times it’s possible for a farm team to be completely owned by the parent team if a weird situation arises.) They operate their own ballclub and reap all the profits, on top of that, their parent team also pays them as well, because the farm team operates very beneficially towards the parent team, and secondly because some minor league clubs wouldn’t survive without the parental support and the Major league teams need several farm teams.
The Major league team has a right to trade for ANY player on the minor league roster, the only difference between a Major – Major transaction and a Major - (Affiliated) Minor transaction is the minor league team has no right whatsoever to turn down the trade. The Major league team is only limited in that it can’t do a trade that results in either team having too many or too few players (25 is mandated, can’t go over because it’s against the rules, and can’t go under because it’s agains the union rules.)
Now as for the number of employees, it does vary. Because a player that is in the Minor leagues has a minor league contract and isn’t employed by the Major league team. But the second that player becomes a Major leaguer he’s entitled to that contract until it expires, the union makes very sure of this. So anytime a major gets optioned to a minor league club, that particular player is still more or less an employee of the major league club because he must be paid the same wage he was making in the majors (or it would violate his contract.) So if the Yanks option Giambi to the minors he’ll still get the millions of dollars he is still owed (barring something coming of the steroid thing.)
Every team also employs scouts in all other major league cities - most of these aren’t full time jobs, and probably don’t pay much, but they’d probably count as employees.
I do not believe that you are correct. A friend of mine runs an affiliated minor league team, and all of the on-field staff (players, manager, coaches, trainer, etc.) are employees of the major league organization.
The basic break-down of the minor league contract is that the big league club provides the team, and the affiliate provides the place to play the game. The minor league club pays for the venue and some of the expenses of the teams (like uniforms) and keeps the gate.
His team has about 20 full-time employees year-around (which is probably on the large side for a minor league team). On game days, they probably employ up to 200 additional staff (including both concessionaire and security firm employees).
Most big-leauge clubs have one AAA affiliate, one AA affiliate and 3-4 A and Rookie League affiliates, plus players in rehab, injured reserve, etc. so they probably have about 200 players on payroll. I would guess that they have 50 or so in coaching, scouting, training, and other baseball field operations in the organization. In the front office, they proabably have at least 50 full-time employees, from general manager to administrators. And they’ll have at least several hundred game-day employees, including ushers, security, concessionaires, broadcast, stadium operations, etc.
Actually, I don’t know of any major league franchises that have more than 2 Class A affiliates; some have tried to make do with only one Class A affiliate in recent years, but I believe all of them currently have two. Or perhaps you meant 3-4 additional affiliates across Class A and the Rookie leagues, in which case you’re mostly right, though 4-5 would be more accurate: two Class A affiliates, and two or more Rookie League teams (including the Dominican and Venezuelan Summer Leagues, which are recognized by Minor League Baseball as official affiliates).
Also, ownership of minor league teams by Major League franchises isn’t limited to “weird situations”, as implied by Martin Hyde. It’s more a matter of organizational philosophy and resources; the Atlanta Braves own their Richmond (Triple-A), Jackson (MS) (Double-A), Rome (low A), and Danville (Rookie) affiliates; the only affiliate the Braves don’t own is the Myrtle Beach (high A) team. The Braves have owned all of these franchises for at least the last twenty years or so.
The Braves are unusual in that respect, however; by my count there are about 16 other minor league teams owned by MLB teams. Only the Cardinals come close to the Braves, owning 3 minor league teams: Springfield (AA), Palm Beach (A), and Johnson City (R), though the Mets also own one team outright and two more through closely-affiliated companies. The Florida State League (high A) has 9 of its 12 teams owned by MLB clubs. I’m leaving out the Gulf Coast League, which is made up entirely of Rookie level teams operating out of their spring training facilities. Most of the other MLB-team-owned minor league franchises are also Rookie League teams, primarily in the Appalachian League.
Teams are limited to having one team in each of the four classifications of full season minor leagues: AAA, AA, High A, and Low A.
There are also short season A leagues and Rookie leagues. Usually teams have one Short Season A league and one Rookie league team, but some franchises, for examples, the Dodgers, have two Rookie league teams.
Basically, you can have anywhere from 3 to 5 teams in the Rookie and A league levels and you can’t have two “High A” teams.
“High A” leagues are California, Carolina, and Florida State Leagues. “Low A” are Midwest and South Atlantic. There are age limits of sorts.
The short season leagues are for new draft picks. The older players go to the short season A league and the younger ones go to Rookie ball.
I was a minor league Bullpen Catcher. I was only paid per deim and that was
fine with me. Major league Bullpen catchers are paid well. The work is hard
but rewarding. On my minor league team, only 2 catchers were on the roster.
often times,one would be receiving while the other was the Designated hitter.
The bullpen can get crazy at times. Even when the starting pitcher throws a
complete game, guys will still warm-up for possible situations.