{"id":10795,"date":"2020-06-17T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2020-06-17T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:30:36","slug":"mlb-players-cry-foul-over-commissioners-u-turn-on-season-resumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/mlb-players-cry-foul-over-commissioners-u-turn-on-season-resumption\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Players Cry Foul over Commissioner&#8217;s U-Turn on Season Resumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rob-manford.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Manford\" title=\"MLB Players Cry Foul over Commissioner's U-Turn on Season Resumption\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10796\" \/>Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner <strong>Rob Manfred<\/strong> went on record recently to say that he is gradually losing confidence regarding the resumption of the 2020 season, arguing that the contentious discussions with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/mlb-rebuffs-players-associations-114-game-proposal-and-says-no-to-counter-offer\/\">MLB Players Association (PA) is jeopardizing the league\u2019s much-awaited return<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MLB players immediately reacted negatively to this news, as this was a clear reversal from Manfred\u2019s comments last week, in which he <strong>claimed that the 2020 season will 100% return soon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, the risk of losing the 2020 MLB season increased even more with the commissioner\u2019s office telling the PA that the league will not release a schedule unless the PA waives its right to argue that management violated their March agreement. Manfred stated that the PA\u2019s argument that the league failed its obligation to play the highest number of games was not made in good faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSNBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhiJ7ZAMCao?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Manfred, the blame for the delay is squarely on the shoulders of the PA, saying that the discussions with the union over safety and health precautions for COVID-19 has been stalled by the PA\u2019s tactics. Manfred stated that the team owners are all on board with the MLB season resumption this year, blaming the PA\u2019s negotiation strategies for potentially sinking the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<h2>PA Believes Manfred is Posturing to Pressure Players<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Tony Clark<\/strong>, the executive director for the PA, immediately issued a response to Manfred\u2019s comments, expressing the union\u2019s frustration over the commissioner\u2019s public flip-flop on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/baseball\">2020 baseball season resumption<\/a>. Clark contested Manfred\u2019s statement that the PA was causing the delays due to health and safety protocols, noting that Manfred himself had characterized the dialogue as close to done in previous statements. <\/p>\n<p>According to Clark, Manfred\u2019s comments were essentially a threat to cancel the season. It was also proof for Clark that the league had been the party negotiating in bad faith, using incendiary public statements to finesse a better position for the league and its owners by pressuring the PA members to take on even more pay cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/mlbs-latest-proposal-includes-a-72-game-season-and-a-sunday-night-deadline-for-an-agreement\/\">MLB delivered a proposal on June 13<\/a> that <strong>mandated a 72-game season and a guarantee for 70% of prorated player salaries, with a ceiling of 83% for some<\/strong>. The lead negotiator for the PA, <strong>Bruce Meyer<\/strong>, rejected the proposal, arguing that it would cost players hundreds of millions of dollars while protecting the pockets of the league and team owners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred went on record recently to say that he is gradually losing confidence regarding the resumption of the 2020 season, arguing that the contentious discussions with the MLB Players Association (PA) is jeopardizing the league\u2019s much-awaited return. MLB players immediately reacted negatively to this news, as this was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MLB Players Cry Foul over Commissioner&#039;s U-Turn on Season Resumption<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MLB commissioner Rob Manfred went on record recently to say that he is gradually losing confidence regarding the resumption of the 2020 season\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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