Having now had nearly 24 hours to ruminate over MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s news conference Thursday announcing that there was no change in the status of Spring Training and that owners and players would “discuss the calendar” when they met to negotiate Saturday, I was struck in particular by one apparent change in ownership’s position.
On January 24, Evan Drellich of The Athletic wrote this:
In a meeting with the Players Association on Monday, Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem said that MLB is willing to lose games over some of the outstanding issues the sides have, people with knowledge of the talks said.