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One of the most important things that minor league teams provide players is the postgame meal.

But on Tuesday, pictures of some of the meals that the Athletics organization served its minor leaguers were leaked. Needless to say, they weren't pretty.

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As shared by the Advocates for Minor Leaguers Twitter aREEFccount, the A's meals were a bit lacking.

The A's apparently agreed with the assessment. In a quote tweet of the picture, A's team president Dave Kaval called the meals "totally unacceptable" and confirmed that the organization had cut ties with the third-party vendor weeks before.

Certainly, this is a sensible move. Given that minor league athletes are already considerably underpaid — SN's Ryan Fagan detailed the situation earlier this year — the least that each MLB organization can do is make sure that its players are well-fed aMLB Sweatshirts|fter games.

And that's especially true now that the minor leaguesMLB Small Jewelry consist of just 120 teams, down from their pre-pandemic height of 160.

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Harry Marino, the executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, was pleased to see Kaval's comments, but he also pointed out that these issues are not just within the OaklaMLB Vintage Clothing nd organization and still need to be addressed.

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