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The MLB season-delay offer isn’t as good as it seemed and players will likely reject it

Sunday, I wrote here about a report that Major League Baseball had proposed to players a delay to the start of the 2021 season. This reportedly included full pay for a 154-game season and expanded playoffs.

It sounded good, at first glance, but when later details came out, the offer appeared to be not as good as originally thought.

Here are some of those details:

I just received a little more details on the proposal. It significantly modifies the CBA already in effect, almost exclusively to the benefit of management.