The MLB and MLBPA seem no closer toward agreeing to the parameters surrounding a 2020 season, whose start has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
That sentiment continued Friday as MLBPA chief negotiator Bruce Meyer sent a spirited response to a letter from Dan Halem, adeputy commissioner at MLB.
Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic wrote the following:
"In a letter sent Wednesday, Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem detailed the different reasons the league rejected a proposal for a 114-game season from the Players Association.
"On Friday, top union negotiator Bruce Meyer sent a blistering response, accusing MLB of employing a 'cynical tactic of depriving America of baseball games,' while adding that the league 'has done nothing to persuade' the players that its financial claims are accurate and warning that the union has no obligation to an expanded postseason if the league attempts to implement a schedule it picks on its own.