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Major League Baseball's latest proposal to players on a return-to-play economic package offered a higher potential salary than the last plan but less guaranteed money over a 76-game season, sources familiar with the proposal told ESPN.
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Players and officials at the MLB Players Association quickly scoffed at the proposal.
The MLB can start the season with the number of games of its choosing, however, the players will have a say as to whether there will be a post season. Currently, the league is looking at a 48-game season.
Monday's plan would cover up to 75% of players' prorated salaries.
Now the league awaits a response from the union, which it asked in the proposal to return word by Wednesday, according to sources.
How much likelier does today's plan make it that there will be an agreement to play baseball this summer?
"This doesn't really bring the sides any closer together," commented ESPN reporter David Schoenfield. "Since this offer is less in guaranteed money, it seems unlikely to appease the players, but it's getting close to crunch time here, and a potential $1.43 billion in salary is still $1.43 billion."
They won't accept it in this form, but they have to be honest (within the union, not with us) about why they won't accept it," ESPN reporter Bradford Doolittle remarked. "This does appear to me to be a very small step toward the players, so hopefully it is viewed as just another proposal, one that merits a response, and not another talking point for more empty press statements and social media blathering."
ESPN reporter Jesse Rogers believes that the longer they go with negotiations, the fewer games can be played.
"Having said that, they still have plenty of time to get a shortened season in," Rogers stated. "Expect at most four weeks for Spring Training 2.0 which means to play 50 games they could conceivably negotiate until July 1. The league will avoid playing regular-season games in October or beyond -- party because of a possible second wave of the coronavirus but also because their postseason TV schedule is already set. With every other major sport playing at that time of year, it won't be easy to move things past what's already been scheduled."
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