Players voted down Major League Baseball’s latest proposal to play a 60-game season.
According to ESPN:
The Major League Baseball Players Association executive board on Monday voted to reject MLB’s 60-game offer with expanded playoffs, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers, putting commissioner Rob Manfred in position to implement a schedule of his choosing — likely between 50 to 60 games.
The vote was 33-5 against, sources said. The MLBPA executive board is comprised of 30 player representatives and an eight-member subcommittee.
The 60-game framework germinated from a meeting last week between Manfred and union executive director Tony Clark. After MLB rejected a 70-game proposal from the MLBPA, the league told the union a negotiated agreement would follow the 60-game framework, which included expanded playoffs and a universal designated hitter.
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And the dominoes are now likely set to tumble:
1. Implementation of a short season by MLB
2. Some players choosing not to play.
3. PA grievance
4. Upcoming free agents get destroyed in market
5. All major labor issues merely deferred to next spring.
Mutually assured destruction.— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 22, 2020
It’s absolute death for this industry to keep acting as it has been. Both sides. We’re driving the bus straight off a cliff. How is this good for anyone involved? Covid 19 already presented a lose lose lose situation and we’ve somehow found a way to make it worse. Incredible.
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) June 22, 2020
