A look at the three plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit against Major League Baseball:

Aaron Senne

The 28-year-old Minnesotan is the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit. He was drafted by the Florida Marlins in 2010 and played three seasons in the Marlins’ minor-league system. He also spent one year on the disabled list rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. He said his monthly salary varied from $800 to $1,200 over the course of his career.

At one point he lived with five other teammates in a two-bedroom apartment, and was always borrowing money from his parents.

“It starts to weigh on you when you’re in your 20s and you’re still depending on your parents.”

He would buy groceries in bulk, mostly frozen pizza rolls and peanut butter and jelly. “You didn’t have enough money to eat quality food.”

“We’re not asking for millions of dollars,” he told the Star. “What the lawsuit asks for is that we deserve the same rights as employees of any other company — your McDonald’s or Wal-Mart or Target, whoever it might be. We believe we should fall into the same category and that Major League Baseball should be complying with the same laws that these other companies have to comply with.”

Matt Daly

A 13th-round draft pick of the Blue Jays in 2008, Daly played five years in the Jays’ farm system, earning less than $40,000 over his entire minor-league career.

The right-handed reliever was released by the Jays in 2013 after he participated in spring training without pay.

“Everything seems glamorous and amazing when you’re a professional athlete,” he told the Star in a 2014 interview. “Then I got there and saw how different it was”

Daly lived in cramped one-bedroom apartments with multiple teammates until the birth of his first child in 2010, when he moved in with his wife. His in-laws paid the rent for their Dunedin, Fla. apartment.

“We wouldn’t have been able to afford it otherwise,” he said.

Daly, who at one point figured he would make more money working 20 hours a week for minimum wage, said he didn’t protest his low wages until after he retired for fear he would jeopardize his chances at making the big leagues.

“But truly, in your heart you feel that you’re basically not getting what you should given the amount of time and hours and effort that you’re putting into it from a true job perspective. It’s not fair.”

Jeremy Barfield

The son of former Blue Jays’ outfielder Jesse Barfield, Jeremy joined the class-action lawsuit earlier this year.

The 27-year-old Texan, an eighth-round draft pick of the Oakland A’s, played seven years in the affiliated minor leagues before becoming a minor-league free agent. This year he’s playing in the independent minor leagues for the Sugar Land Skeeters.

“If I was in affiliated ball right now there’s no way I would talk about this, but it’s the truth and somebody has to say it,” he told the Star earlier this year.

Barfield’s first paycheque as a professional baseball player was $800 for the month. Even in Double-A, he made just $7,700 for the entire five-month season.

At one point Oakland tried to turn Barfield into a pitcher, moving him from Triple-A to Class-A. He only learned of his pay cut when he got his cheque.

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“I went from making $2,100 a month to $1,800 a month.”

For Barfield the issue is simple: players should be paid for the hours they work.

“Nobody expects to make big money in the minor leagues,” he said. “But to provide guys with a living wage would be nice, and I don’t think it would be an extraordinary burden for the organizations.”