NEW YORK — Major League Baseball held off formally imposing a 60-game schedule Tuesday on its feuding players while negotiating an operations manual, but was on track to start the season from July 23-26 in empty ballparks.
Owners and players have spent more than three months of mostly fruitless talks on how to play amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the players' association rejected a negotiated agreement to account for the financial fallout of the virus outbreak, Commissioner Rob Manfred was hoping to announce a schedule. It would be MLB's shortest since the 1878 National League season.