Report: Players vote against MLB proposal to resume season
Jun 22, 2020, 3:15 PM | Updated: 3:16 pm
Nationals Park, home to the World Series Champion Washington Nationals, is empty on the scheduled date for Opening Day March 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association’s executive board voted Monday against the league’s 60-game proposal to resume the season, per multiple reports.
The vote was 33-5 against the league’s proposal, according to ESPN’s Jesse Rogers and Jeff Passan.
According to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, commissioner Rob Manfred is expected to mandate the start of a season, circumventing the need for further negotiations between stalemated sides.
The Major League Baseball Players Association today released the following statement: pic.twitter.com/1OnFBsoEjd
— MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) June 22, 2020
Players and owners have feuded for weeks on the terms of resuming the season, which was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic when spring training was halted in March. The sport’s stalemate has remained public via media reports, which have put on full display the distance between the two sides on matters of money and length of season.
The latest proposal for 60 games included $1.48 billion in salary plus a $25 million postseason players’ pool.
Some players would prefer there not be a deal and that Manfred unilaterally order the schedule. Because players insisted on full prorated pay, he threatened a schedule of about 50 games. MLB agreed to prorated pay when Manfred met with Clark last week.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
