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Smitty
07-29-2015, 04:03 PM
Mike Hessman ties the minor league HR record today with his 432nd blast.

Had a couple cups of coffee in the bigs. Drafted by the Braves in 1996.
MsStateBaseball
07-29-2015, 04:29 PM
That's pretty good. And it's living a dream.
Johnson85
07-29-2015, 05:01 PM
Mike Hessman ties the minor league HR record today with his 432nd blast.

Had a couple cups of coffee in the bigs. Drafted by the Braves in 1996.

19 years. Can you actually make a living doing that? Or has he probably been scraping by for the past 15 years after his rookie signing bonus and now can basically just go into coaching?
Smitty
07-29-2015, 05:43 PM
19 years. Can you actually make a living doing that? Or has he probably been scraping by for the past 15 years after his rookie signing bonus and now can basically just go into coaching?

3 different call ups to the bigs and that league minimum should be a nice base to sit on.

Doing some Google work and his 2010 contact with the Mets was 15K a month in the minors and 425K for making it up.
I seen it dawg
07-30-2015, 01:17 AM
Nobody can judge that dude for doing what he's done for so long. Money or not he's loved it the way he wanted to with a cup of coffee.
Johnson85
07-30-2015, 08:50 AM
3 different call ups to the bigs and that league minimum should be a nice base to sit on.

Doing some Google work and his 2010 contact with the Mets was 15K a month in the minors and 425K for making it up.

I'm assuming that's $15k per month during the season? Minor league players that have been in the minors for 14 years don't get $180k a year do they?
Johnson85
07-30-2015, 08:52 AM
Nobody can judge that dude for doing what he's done for so long. Money or not he's loved it the way he wanted to with a cup of coffee.

Nothing to judge. Even if he has been scraping by and has basically nothing to his name, he can still go make a living coaching baseball somewhere. Not ideal to start saving for retirement after working for 19 years, but even if he went to college four years, he'd only be what, 41? Lots of people don't start saving before then anyway.
Homedawg
07-30-2015, 09:07 AM
I'm assuming that's $15k per month during the season? Minor league players that have been in the minors for 14 years don't get $180k a year do they?

Players at all levels only get paid during the months of the season so yes that's 90k.