Prior to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred implementing a 60-game regular season, team owners and the Players Association were at odds over an economic plan for several weeks.
The union wouldn’t budge on accepting further pay cuts after the two sides agreed in March that players would receive full prorated salaries during a 2020 season that was very clearly going to be shortened.
Team owners argued that such was only possible if fans were able to attend games. And though that prospect remains unlikely, MLB is deferring to local governments to make the decision.
The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros are two clubs that once were thought to be in position to permit fans to attend games at some point this season.