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Major League Baseball intends to propose a shorter season in which they would pay players a full prorated share of their salaries, sources told ESPN. The league believes the late March agreement allows it to set the schedule, and that this would fulfill players’ pro rata desire.
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The potential season Major League Baseball envisions would run somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 regular-season games, sources told ESPN. The exact number is being considered, but the aim would be to return in July. It would be less than half of players’ proposed season length.
Seems players saying they are worried about health is all bs..
Both sides just care about money
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baseball anytime soon. MAD for both, but whatever.
Seems players saying they are worried about health is all bs..
Both sides just care about money
Well yeah. It’s been obvious for a long time if you’re under 55 it’s not worth living a life of poverty over. Just hope our kids can overcome this devastation in terms of their lack of development for a year-plus
A 50 game season is completely pointless. As a fan I hate we hear all the negotiation because both sides are being unreasonable but if their deadline is a week at least the owners got back to them same day - that’s a good sign there’s some urgency.
You keep telling us about it. Your 26 year grudge is alive and well I guess.
What fans?
Also eveyone just overlooks that both sides already agreed that the players get the year as service Thats huge. athat means that all these huge bad contracts get a year expired without paying full price. Like Jacoby Ellsburys 26 million that the yankees were refusing to pay is now only 13 million.
Also nobody is going to be over the luxury tax threshold so theres another chunkmof money that would have gone into the pool to help teams that are going to take the biggest hits. It may also techmicaly reset the tax % for all the teams that were over it.
And I dont think this will be a banner offseason for FA. Coming off down season with teams very aware that they cant count on the same attendance projections going forward and new CBA negotiation lumming noboynis gonna drop big money over a bunch of years.
Pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
I think its more about getting back to work than it is crowing a champion. The title is going to be "tainted" in any sport that comes back with a severely reduced season.
My only sympathy are for those in the minors who get paid little, and all the hard working crews at each facility (grounds crew, concessions, parking, etc). The players and owners losing money is what it is.
Get your surgeries done now if you need one and reset to 2021.
Pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
why? There wont be an effective vaccine by then.
not following... players want 110+ games, so they're evidently not concerned about their 0.02% chance of fatality... and the proposed solution doesnt have any fans in the stands... or maybe eventually they adopt the Texas guidelines of 25% occupancy (the same one the Miami Dolphins floated around a month ago too), which has fans sitting 10 part from each other. Either way, not sure what 'risk' you're referring to.
But that looks bad too, considering no fans = no ticket sales, concessions, etc. Not sympathizing with the owners but I wouldn't agree to these terms either. Everyone is operating under extraordinary circumstances and giving in financially should be done on both sides.
the players proposed 114 games, MLB proposed 50, what is the midpoint of those two?
82 games.
they shouldn't be negotiating publicly - it makes both sides look bad, but that's what they're doing. negotiating.
the orig owners 80 game proposal was most workable. the fact that they cocked it up with the new pay proposal is another story.
Players would probably make about the same on 50 v 82 (lowered). For the players to propose more games when the owners are claiming they lose money per game is just a silly negotiating strategy and pure postering.
You also thought COVID-19 was going to wipe out half of America so your tune has changed significantly.
Players would probably make about the same on 50 v 82 (lowered). For the players to propose more games when the owners are claiming they lose money per game is just a silly negotiating strategy and pure postering.
You have made a lot of assumptions and placed faith in ownership's honesty with that post. Historically, these guys have been full of * when it comes to their books, and the players position is that they signed contracts... when the franchise value and revenues went up every year for a decade, the players didnt get all of that (I read somewhere the other day player salaries are up 40% or something over the last decade vs franchise values up 300%)... so why should the players take a bath to ensure the owners dont lose any money this one year?