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Cubs' Ian Happ: MLB players ‘have already agreed to a pay cut’ for 2020 season

Should the MLB players union agree to a pay cut for the 2020 season?

“Players right now have already agreed to a pay cut,” said Cubs outfielder Ian Happ Tuesday on ESPN’s “Waddle and Silvy," when asked if the players expect to compromise with league owners on further salary concessions.

Happ, the Cubs assistant MLBPA representative, is speaking of the agreement players made with MLB owners in March to receive prorated salaries this season.

“We’re taking pay as the number of games that we play this year,” he said.

The owners and players hit the negotiating table Tuesday to discuss MLB’s proposal to restart the 2020 season.