MLB players have said publicly that they want to play and are ready to get going, but they won’t take another pay cut just to start the 2020 season. Union leader Tony Clark issued a statement Thursday evening to announce that the players “resoundingly rejected” the league’s demand for any further concessions.
“In this time of unprecedented suffering at home and abroad, players want nothing more than to get back to work and provide baseball with the game we all love,” Clark said. “But we cannot do this alone.”
That friction will likely spill over into negotiations between the two sides when they work out a new CBA when the current agreement expires at the conclusion of the 2021 season.