Keeping Score: Clubbie insider Good morning! Few baseball books have been written about life at the bottom of baseball’s food chain. According to baseballamerica.com, each franchise has over 200 players under contract not including rookie league players in Arizona, Florida and the Dominican Republic, and only 26 of them can be on a big league roster. A scout in Jupiter, Fla., once told me that only seven percent of players who sign a pro baseball contract ever make it to the major leagues. “Including the ones who only got called up for a cup of coffee,” he added. In the minor leagues the pay is low, the food is bad and the living quarters are Spartan. Greg Larson knows, in 2012-13 he was the clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen (Md.) IronBirds, the Baltimore Orioles’ High-A affiliate.