There was no progress made on a resolution for the 2020 MLB season and time continues to tick away. Trying to understand how we went from Rob Manfred saying during the MLB Draft that there would absolutely be a 2020 season to his remarks on Monday about not being confident a season will happen continue to astound.
The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal summed up the situation saying that the players correctly called the owners’ bluff when they told the league to go ahead and implement a season. As it turns out, if the league implements a short season now, then they would face a potential billion-dollar grievance from the union.