By 2018, Joe Hudson had been playing professional baseball for five years as a minor leaguer. He had less than $1,000 in his bank account. Many minor leaguers are notoriously underpaid, and back then made, on average, between some $6,000 and $15,000 per year, depending on their level. They only receive checks seasonally. Hudson, like many of his colleagues, had been forced to take second and third jobs to make do; Hudson washed 8-irons at a golf club, worked as a caterer and gave his fair share of baseball lessons.