Major League Baseball is considering proposing a 50-game regular season during negotiations about how to restart the coronavirus-shortened season.
Yes, just 50 games, just a sliver of the typical 162-game regular season.
It is, almost assuredly, just a negotiating ploy to scare the players. A 50-game season with prorated money would allow for just 30.8 percent of salaries to get doled out. The players have asked for a 114-game season, or 70.3 percent of salaries. And that’s just one front of a complicated game of revenue-sharing chicken.
If this is even formally presented to the union, it’ll probably be quickly rejected.