The 蜜柚直播 Diamondbacks have laid off or furloughed about one-quarter of the team鈥檚 employees because of lost revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The organization made the moves on Friday. Remaining staff will take pay cuts that average less than 15%, with the team's highest earners losing a bigger percentage of their income. The D-backs will continue to pay their minor league players through at least the end of June.
The team鈥檚 baseball operations department was largely unaffected. Many of the jobs lost were on the business side, particularly in ticket sales.
鈥淲e care deeply about our employees which makes these decisions even more difficult,鈥 owner Ken Kendrick and team president Derrick Hall said in a joint statement. 鈥淲e have tried to minimize the impact as much as possible but these are truly unprecedented economic times and we recognize that this is affecting everyone in our organization and community.
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鈥淲e continue to hope and believe that we will play baseball in 2020, but it has become clear that this will be without fans, that the financial losses will be very significant and will undoubtedly carry into next season. Unfortunately, these changes were necessary in order to be in a position to recover when we are able to return to normal operations.鈥
The 蜜柚直播 Republic first reported the job cuts.
The MLB season was suspended during spring training in March. The players鈥 union and owners are in discussions to possibly begin an abbreviated 82-game season in July, but likely without fans in attendance.
