What's up guys, Coach Madden, yougoprobaseball.com and I'm here with
Matt Antonelli from Antonelli baseball YouTube channel he was a major league
hitter middle infielder Padres organization we played together in that
organization and he's got a great YouTube channel and there's a couple
videos on his channel that are awesome a lot of them that are awesome but there's
a couple that I kind of want to pick your brain about and and have you
elaborate onto in this video the first one is what kind of gear did you get in
the major leagues when you were in the major leagues okay so how it works is
typically your your team is gonna provide you with your jersey top in your
pants and maybe like maybe like a shirt like this but you're not actually gonna
get a lot of stuff from the actual team you'll get your hat too but most of the
stuff you wear like like for me batting gloves cleats anything underneath my
uniform a whole bunch of these dry-fit type shirts wrist bands all that stuff
typically came from whoever your sponsor was so what happens is depending if you
have a sponsor now some guys don't get a sponsor and and we actually play with a
bunch of guys I know a bunch of guys that would show up and they would be
having a go out and buy their stuff that you know wherever they go to Dick's
Sporting Goods or something and buy their stuff so some guys have to get
their own stuff are you typically by the time you get to the major leagues most
guys have deals and so how it worked for me is my agent would set it up so like
my first year when we first played together that very first season
companies were starting to send me stuff and so I'd get like boxes of like some
Nike gear and some adidas gear and I got really lucky on Fort or fortunately for
me I got drafted high and so people wanted to send me stuff after about five
six years they want to take it all away but for a little bit they were actually
sending me stuff and so you know I tried on the stuff and and I told my agent
listen I really like this Nike stuff and plus Nikes a big name and so I said
let's go with Nike so what happens is once you get that sponsorship they start
sending you everything so the type of gear that I would get from them
literally they would send me you know her shoes cleats you'd wear compression
shorts underneath your your uniform if it's cold you get kind of like that cold
gear that long gear stuff you get a ton of these dry fits batting gloves
wristbands all that stuff and if you want more all I would literally do is
tell my agent hey I'm all a lot of batting gloves can I get some more
batting gloves and he would put the order in and within a few days I go to
my locker and there be batting gloves in there so you get kind of spoiled at the
major league level and some guys get spoiled at the minor league level but
again there's a lot of guys that have to get their own stuff and so it really
just depends on a lot of things depends if you're drafted high or low even
though it that's kind of unfair that's the way it kind of works
some guys agents have better connections than others so it really depends but
yeah all that gear all that stuff typically comes from a sponsorship or
through your agency it's pretty in person on traffic and I didn't have any
sponsors but my agent would send me stuff so I don't know if he was going
out and buying it or perhaps maybe the agent has many different players and
they have deals so he has a bunch of stuff and he's sending it to all his
players so it always get a box but for me it was through my through my agent
now one thing I will say is when we were at the Padres we only got like one shirt
one shorts whatever not a whole bunch and they were usually tee and they were
usually at least our years were like cotton like not comfortable like you
know way up here so man they were bad but I will say when I went to the Mets I
walked in the whole Locker was just packed with awesome stuff it was so cool
Spike's turfs really old locker full of just stuff to wear so I will say that
versus the the Padres organization they did the Mets definitely hooked on the
sweet gear for sure I think probably a big market team big money teams era but
I enjoyed that part of it so second question is yep what about the pay in
the major leagues how do you get paid yeah when do you get paid how does that
whole work yeah I think the misconception with pay is that no matter
what level you're at you don't get paid in spring training and you don't get
paid in the offseason and you don't get paid in the playoff if you're the big
leagues you can get you know you win you get some bonuses and stuff
but really you only get paid for that regular season so when we go to spring
training all you get is meal money for spring training and so what happens is
you'd show up and if you're in the minor leagues I think when we were playing it
was like 20 dollars a day I believe for most of the for most of my years and I
think in the big leagues it was $100 a day so you show up you go into your club
and they usually give you cash they'd give you you know in the big leagues you
get $700 in the minor leagues you get one hundred and forty dollars and that's
your money and you got to make that last once the season starts then you finally
get paid whatever it is you get paid so if you're in the major leagues for me I
got League minimum which was my year was four hundred thousand now I think it's
like 550 maybe or something like that somewhere around there and you get paid
every two weeks so it was like the 1st and the 15th I think it was you get your
check and so it's either direct deposit it I think the first year or so I think
I don't know why I did the check would be in my locker and I have to go and
deposit it but after a while you got it direct deposited and you're getting paid
every two weeks and that goes all the way through until the season ends and
when the season's over that's it like you don't get paid anymore a lot of
people don't realize that and so you know most guys go and get jobs during
the offseason because they're not making any money anymore
so unless you're me if you're a major league I then yeah you're probably not
going and bussing tables and stuff like that but if you're a minor league player
you're probably going and getting some type of job I used to come and do I used
to do lessons and run clinics and camps and all that stuff but we know guys that
did all kinds of stuff over the offseason so that's how pay worked well
two things one I remember when I learned about the living off money
yeah and they would give you money in spring training if you didn't want to
stay at the hotel and you want to live somewhere else so they cut you a check
or give you cash I forget but it was like four in the minor leagues was like
800 or something to go live somewhere else so what we would do is we find
three or four guys and we'd go rent a house so now we got eight eight hundred
times four which is thirty two hundred good and so we could get a nice house
for us yeah Spring Training we're living in this nice house you know got some
food money now extra money so when I learned about that living off money I
definitely capitalized on that the second thing I wanted to ask you was so
what does that come out to so every two of the first and fifteenth
yeah at major league salary not the taxes and all that what is a paycheck I
can't remember my exact amount but I do remember before taxes I think it was
like sixty-five thousand for the month and so you break that down let's say
thirty something thousand every two weeks but then you take out taxes so I
don't I honestly don't remember the exact amount but it was obviously way
way more than we were again I think it was probably coming out to like twenty
thousand dollars every two weeks something like that and so you go from
the minor leagues getting paid some months you get a couple hundred bucks
you know like I remember getting checks in the minors my first year you get a
check and it was like for what two hundred bucks every two weeks maybe and
then you go you know fast-forward to get to the major leagues and I'm getting
league minimum the lowest player in the app in the league you know you getting
twenty thousand dollars every couple of weeks and so it's a little bit different
then you talk about the guys getting you know twenty thirty million dollars a
year and then it gets mind-boggling and they're getting money from sponsors and
yeah other deals whatever they got crazy now what about the food in the major
leagues how is that different from the minor league yeah so peanut butter and
jelly is typically as you know that's where you for when you first show up in
- yeah exactly a little different so you when you get
there it's peanut butter and jelly I remember when we were in Eugene Eugene
was my first stop it was that was it it was like peanut butter and jelly before
the game Peter and butter jelly after the game like that was it right and then
as Scotty yes exactly so as you move up you the food gets a
little bit better it does depend I think on the
organization and where you're playing at I think for the Padres for us like when
we got to double-a and San Antonio that's when the food started to get a
little bit better so you'd get food before the game and after the game like
they'd actually cook you some food after the game so you might get some steak or
some chicken you know some corn on the cob and stuff Triple A usually gets a
lot better usually you'll get you know they'll start actually going out to
restaurants and get them like I don't know maybe like a PF Changs night we've
get some rice and some chicken and stuff and so the food does get better there
and then when you get to the major leagues that's when it's the absolute
batch that's when you can literally you know I used to go to the game
walk in and I'm a really picky eater so I'd get to the game and I'd be like I'd
be burger I need the bread it's terrible die die you burger all the time so I'd
walk in and I'd go up to I'd go in the calf and I go up and go hey could I get
a burger with some fries you could do whatever you wanted thing they cook it
up for you give it to you boom you're good you can have that before games
after games and then you've got big leaguers like we have Brian Giles that
would have sushi nights so we'd had he'd bring in a sushi chef and there'd be
just sushi everywhere and so it really depends the older guys if you have a
team with veterans they usually really take care of guys and they'll have those
type of nights and stuff so foods a little bit better at the major league
level in the minor league level I remember to Lake Elsinore yeah Outback I
know he did once yeah yeah and he came for the whole week it was unbelievable I
remember he brought it out back one night and they had like the grills out
there and they're cooking us up like everything but that's what big leaguers
do that's the best part is when when they come down to the minor leagues to
rehab they almost always do something for the team whether they buy food or
bring in a cooker something so yeah I was really low for the peanut butter and
jelly and then when we moved up I think did it get up like $13 a day-trip lace
13 exactly big league was 50 a day I think it was 50 a day so yeah you get
more food but you got to pay more but when you get to the major leagues you
don't really care especially when you go on the road and they give you $100 a day
and you only have two you only get $50 you know exactly and you're making two
grand a day pretty much anyway on a shoot you guys have aspirations for for
a nice little job anyway thank you so much
he's got videos on all three of these subjects and a lot more he gives like
behind the scenes information of when he was playing in the major leagues some
really cool videos over there these three videos are on his channel
definitely got to go check it out he talks a little more in detail about them
gives gives you some secret behind-the-scenes
stuff of really cool stuff so I'll leave his link down below go subscribe to mr.
Antonelli thank you sir thank you I appreciate it we'll see you
guys next time