With Memorial Day upon us, there’s very little time left for MLB and the MLB Players Association to come to an agreement that allows them to start the season back up in early July. A three-week spring training would need to open by June 10 or so and players would need to be given plenty of lead time to set their affairs in order and report back to camp. That means both sides have roughly a week to iron out a shared set of parameters, the most important of which governs player pay.
Things looked pretty bleak on that front heading into the weekend, with owners crying poor and players standing firm in the stance that they’d already agreed to a pay cut by way of prorated salaries.