MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is “not confident” that there will be a 2020 season, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Manfred told ESPN that “as long as there’s no dialogue with the MLB Players Association, that real risk is going to continue.”
The MLBPA issued a statement on Saturday saying that further dialogue between the parties would be “futile” and that it’s “time to get back to work,” after the league delivered a return-to-play proposal that called for a 72-game season and guaranteed 70 per cent of players’ prorated salaries.
The commissioner has the power to implement a shortened season at around 50 games but as MLB Insider Joel Sherman reports, the union can file a grievance against the league for not living up to to its contractual word to try to play as many games as possible.
Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times reports that the MLB told the MLBPA that there would be no 2020 season unless the union waived any legal claims against the league.
In a statement from MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark, the union has called out Manfred for his change in stance about the 2020 season.
“Players are disgusted that after Rob Manfred unequivocally told Players and fans that there would ‘100 per cent’ be a 2020 season, he has decided to go back on his word and is threatening to cancel the entire season,” Clark said. “Any implication that the Players Association has somehow delayed progress on health and safety protocols is completely false, as Rob has recently acknowledged the parties are ‘very, very close.” This latest threat is just one more indication that Major League Baseball has been negotiation since the beginning. This has always been about extracting additional pay cuts from Players and this is just another day and another bad faith tactic in their ongoing campaign.”
During the MLB Draft, Manfred said he was 100 per cent confident that a season would be played in 2020. Now, his tone has since changed, as Manfred explained to ESPN’s Mike Greenberg that the optics of the negotiation have made it tough to find common ground.
“I had been hopeful that once we got to common ground on the idea that we were gonna pay the players’ full prorated salary, that we would get some cooperation in terms of proceeding under the agreement that we negotiated with the MLBPA on March 26th,” Manfred told ESPN.
“Unfortunately, over the weekend, while Tony Clark was declaring his desire to get back to work, the union’s top lawyer was out telling reporters, players and eventually getting back to owners that as soon as we issued a schedule — as they requested — they intended to file a grievance claiming they were entitled to an additional billion dollars. Obviously, that sort of bad-faith tactic makes it extremely difficult to move forward in these circumstances.”
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2020-06-15 21:28:00Z
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