If baseball players don’t trust the owners as they try to hammer out a deal that will get a 2020 season started by early July, what else is new?
But players past and present say those well-earned trust issues are putting players disproportionately in a negative light as talks continue amid a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 90,000 Americans.
“I think the players are in a tough spot,” former Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot said on the Cubs Talk podcast on NBC Sports Chicago. “No matter what happens with this and how it plays out … if [players] concede and stand their ground, like they should, then they come out looking like the bad guys.