6A — THE OBSERVER
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2020
SPORTS
MLB players off er 114-game
season, but want no more pay cuts
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By Ronald Blum
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Major
League Baseball players
ignored claims by clubs that
they need to take additional
pay cuts, instead proposing
they receive a far higher
percentage of salaries and
commit to a longer schedule
as part of a counteroffer to
start the coronavirus-
delayed season.
Players on Sunday pro-
posed a 114-game regular
season, up from 82 in man-
agement’s offer, a person
familiar with the plan told
The Associated Press.
Done that way, the World
Series could extend past
Thanksgiving.
The person spoke to the
AP on condition of ano-
nymity because no details
were announced.
Opening day would be
June 30 and the regular
season would end Oct. 31,
nearly fi ve weeks after the
Sept. 27 conclusion that
MLB’s proposal stuck to
from the season’s original
schedule. The union offered
to include more double-
headers as baseball crams
the games into 123 days,
leaving little room for days
off.
MLB’s proposal would
lower 2020 salaries from
about $4 billion to approx-
imately $1.2 billion. The
union’s offer would have sal-
aries total about $2.8 billion.
The plan was given to
MLB during an 80-minute
digital meeting among
Commissioner Rob Man-
fred, deputy commissioner
Dan Halem, union head
Tony Clark and union chief
negotiator Bruce Meyer.
The meeting was conten-
tious, a person familiar with
it said.
Like MLB, the union
would increase postseason
teams from 10 to 14. But
unlike MLB, the players’
proposal would extend the
postseason about a month
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In this Aug. 29, 2019, photo, the sun sets behind Citi Field
during a game between the New York Mets and the Chica-
go Cubs in New York. Major League Baseball players ig-
nored claims by clubs that they need to take additional pay
cuts, instead proposing they receive a far higher percent-
age of salaries and a commit to a longer schedule as part
of a counteroffer to start the coronavirus-delayed season.
past its usual end. MLB has
said it is worried about a
second wave of coronavirus
outbreaks in the autumn.
While management pro-
posed an expanded post-
season for 2020 only, the
union offered it for this year
and next.
Players proposed new
events that could increase
revenue, such as a post-
season or offseason All-Star
Game and/or Home Run
Derby, to wear broadcast
microphones on the fi eld
and to participate in tele-
vision programming away
from ballparks.
They also asked for $100
million more in salary to
be advanced during spring
training.
A player would receive
about 70% of his salary
under the union plan.
The union and MLB
agreed March 26 that
players would receive pro-
rated shares of salaries,
part of the deal in which if
the season is scrapped each
player was guaranteed ser-
vice time for 2020 matching
what he earned in 2019.
The union also was guaran-
teed $170 million in salary
advances.
While the union says
salaries were dealt with
then, that agreement cov-
ered only games in regu-
lar-season ballparks and
with fans. The deal called
for “good faith” negotia-
tions for games without
fans or at neutral sites.
MLB told the union
that players would get 89%
of revenue in an 82-game
schedule with prorated sal-
aries and clubs would com-
bine to lose $640,000 for
each additional game. The
union has questioned the
accounting.
MLB’s offer called for
spring training to resume in
mid-June and for the season
to start around the Fourth
of July. The club proposal
would take the prorated sal-
aries and reduce them again
in a sliding scale. Those
at the $563,500 minimum
would get about 47% and
those at the top — led by
Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole
at $36 million — would
receive less than 23%.
Management proposed
$200 million of salaries
would be contingent on the
postseason’s completion.
All players would have
the right to opt out of the
season under the union
plan.
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