I don’t know about the rest of you, but I feel as though I have been through a baseball-induced emotional roller coaster the past few days, as we went from Rob Manfred’s statement, on draft day, that he was 100% certain we’d have baseball in 2020, to his assertion a few days later that a baseball season was unlikely. What changed in the meantime?
Well, the MLBPA announced it was done negotiating, and that they looked to Manfred to do what a previous agreement gave him power to do — which is unilaterally set the season, with players paid on a pro-rated basis based on games played.