Report: MLBPA offers 89 games, prorated salaries, expanded playoffs to MLB owners
On Monday, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported MLB owners had offered the MLB Players Association a 76-game regular season with 75 percent prorated salaries and a postseason that includes either seven or eight clubs per league to start the campaign in July amid the coronavirus pandemic.
It appears the players have prepared their rebuttal.
Passan tweeted on Tuesday that the union is willing to go down from 114 games to 89 games with a full prorated share of salaries and an expanded postseason format:
Earlier this month, Passan, MLB insider Ken Rosenthal and Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that owners rejected the 114-game proposal submitted by the players. Sherman added the owners would agree only to 80 or more regular-season games if salaries were prorated at a reduced percentage.
Meanwhile, even though Passan expects MLB to reject this proposal, he does think both sides might be moving closer to a resolution.
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