ESPN.com’s Jeff Passan reported last night that Major League Baseball, “intends to propose a shorter season in which they would pay players a full prorated share of their salaries,” if the two sides can’t reach an agreement on how things should work to get baseball back in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The latest update on negotiations on a potential 2020 campaign, Passan writes, comes after an MLBPA plan/response was delivered to MLB on Sunday night.
According to Passan’s sources, MLB believes that the agreement they reached with MLBPA reps in late March, which postponed Spring Training and the start of the 2020 regular season, gives MLB “[C]ommissioner Rob Manfred the right to deliver a season schedule after ‘good faith’ discussions between the league and the union.