After weeks of back and forth between players and owners and months of waiting out the public health crisis, there were big steps taken towards the start of a 2020 MLB season on Monday night. The league announced in a statement that it will be moving forward with implementing a 2020 schedule.
Monday’s news was not the product of any agreement between owners and players to resolve differences that they have been negotiating over for some time. Earlier on Monday, the players voted down a recent ownership proposal that would have required concessions from players in order to end up with probably the same number of games (60)as will happen under MLB’s unilateral implementation of a 2020 schedule.