Another day, another chance for MLB and the union to fire fastballs at one another’s heads.
On Monday, the union threw the heater.
Phoenix TV station KPNX released a letter from the Cactus League to commissioner Rob Manfred, asking him to delay spring training because of the COVID-19 crisis in Arizona. A few hours later, a person familiar with the union’s position suggested to Sports Illustrated that MLB pushed the Cactus League to leak the letter, as a chess move in its larger squabble with the union over the length of the season.
The league declined to comment on that theory.