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Here We Go Again: MLB Owners, Players at Odds Over When to Start Season

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.