MLB and the Player’s Union are at a stalemate, with neither side willing to budge at the moment. On one hand, you have the players who would like to make more money by playing more games. Ownership wants nothing to do that proposal.
When the MLBPA present their 114-game proposal to the owners this week, there was so much skepticism across the industry, that we knew from the beginning it would flop. That became true this week when it was announced that MLB had denied the proposal.
With that announcement came another rumor that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred was able to control the number of games played.