Rob Manfred now controls the fate of the baseball season.
After the players’ association rejected the owners’ latest proposal on Monday, the commissioner can now implement a schedule of his choosing, per an agreement reached in March. The schedule will most likely be around 60 games.
Following the 33-5 rejection — the latest in a series of failed proposals between the two sides — MLB released a statement giving the players’ association a 3 p.m. MT deadline on Tuesday to respond to a pair of items. The first is agreeing to a July 1 report date for the start of another spring training, and the second is players agreeing to health-and-safety protocols.