Commissioner Rob Manfred and the league’s 30 owners made the move to impose a 60-game Major League Baseball yesterday, moving forward under the terms of the March agreement with the Players’ Association after nearly three months of seeking additional salary reductions under the prorated payouts that were originally agreed to. The league gave the union a firm 4:00 pm central deadline today to say whether or not they’d be able to report by July 1st, and if they’d agree to the health protocols laid out by MLB.
And...that deadline was not met, at least not publicly. But about an hour after the supposed deadline came and went, Jeff Passan reported that the players had agreed to begin Spring Training 2.