Starting in 2022, MLB teams will need to provide housing for minor league players, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports.

According to Passan, six teams have started to prepare to help players stay with their four minor league affiliates. Whether the teams will fully cover the cost of housing or provide accommodation for the players is still under discussion as the league finalizes the details of the plan.

Pressure has grown from players and advocacy groups who have criticized their working conditions over financial issues over finding accommodation for home games. In September, minor-league players in the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies farming systems wore teal bracelets to protest the salary they deemed insufficient.

“Minor League Baseball players have been gravely underpaid and silenced for decades,” players from both teams said in a joint statement released by Advocates for Minor Leaguers to The Associated Press. “Today we’re wearing #FairBall bracelets to show our solidarity with every fan and ally who works to change this. We love baseball, but it has to evolve. It’s time for every minor leaguer to get a living wage. ”

High-A players earn at least $ 500 per week and only get paid during the minor league season of around six months. While some players get signing bonuses worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars by entering the professional ball, many sign for as little as $ 1,000.

While major league players earn a minimum of $ 570,500, players under contract with minor leagues are not part of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association. Prior to this season, players at the lowest levels of minors were earning only $ 4,800 per year.

Major League Baseball increased minor league salaries in 2021, with full-season minor leagues earning between $ 12,000 and $ 16,800 per season. The federal poverty line is $ 12,880 for individuals.

– With files from The Associated Press.