MLBPA denies players, owners have reached agreement on 2020 season - Sportsnet.ca

The Major League Baseball Players Association says that reports of an agreement between players and the MLB on the terms for a 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “false.”

Reports of an agreement are false.

— MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) June 17, 2020

Earlier Wednesday, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweeted that the two parties were closing in on a deal to play the 2020 campaign.

While no deal is done, commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged in a statement Wednesday that he and union head Tony Clark met in Phoenix for several hours on Tuesday and parted ways having established a “framework that we agreed could form the basis of an agreement and subject to conversations with our respective constituents.”

“I summarized that framework numerous times in the meeting and sent Tony a written summary today. Consistent with our conversations yesterday, I am encouraging the clubs to move forward and I trust Tony is doing the same,” said Manfred.

The latest proposal reportedly includes 60 games in 70 days, a start date of July 19 or 20, full prorated salary, expanded playoffs in 2020 and 2021 and the waiving of any potential grievance, per The Athletic‘s Ken Rosenthal.

Source: MLB proposal includes:

•60 games in 70 days
•Season starting July 19th/20th
•Full Prorated Salary
•Expanded Playoffs in 2020 and 2021
•Waiving of any potential grievance

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 17, 2020

Manfred and Clark having met is “seen as significant progress considering where the parties were 48 hours ago,” reported ESPN‘s Jeff Passan, as news of the two MLB decision-makers engaging in discussion came amid a turbulent stretch for the league’s return-to-play planning.

Major League Baseball has sent a new proposal to the MLB Players Association, sources tell ESPN. No deal is done, but with Rob Manfred and Tony Clark having met, this is seen as significant progress considering where the parties were 48 hours ago.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 17, 2020

On Monday, just two days after Clark declared additional negotiations with the league futile, Manfred said he “was not confident” there would be games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players union on how to split up money in a season delayed by the novel coronavirus pandemic — a reversal of the position he held last week, when he said he was “100 per cent” certain the 2020 season would start.

The 2020 MLB season was originally scheduled to begin on March 26, but the league was forced to announce on March 12 that the remainder of spring training games were cancelled and that the start of the regular season would be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With files from The Associated Press

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