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MLB and Players are Reportedly Close on Agreement to Start 2020 Season

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According to Jon Heyman, Major League Baseball and the players union are closing in on an agreement to play to 2020 season. Brief details include them working out prorated pay, as well as expanded playoffs.

Heyman reported earlier that MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and player union chief Tony Clark had a productive meeting at the request of Manfred.

One of the big issues, which was only brought up recently, was a possible grievance being filed by the players. The pending deal reportedly says that the players have waived that possibility

According to Jeff Passan, the season would be 60 games, ending on September 27th, followed by the expanded playoffs.

Ken Rosenthal adds that the start date would be July 19/20 under the potential agreement.

This all appears to be very good news. The players get their full pro-rated salary, owners get expanded playoffs. Now the players just need to agree to the proposal, which seems likely, since they were will to settle for the commissioner mandated start of the season a few days ago, which would have been for fewer games and obviously less pay.

 

UPDATE: Of course the players don’t like it because that would be too easy. Sigh…

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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