(ESPN/KVOE) With a season now in jeopardy, Major League Baseball owners have now proposed a 76-game regular-season slate and expanded playoffs to players.
The owners’ plan also includes a 16-team postseason ending no later than Halloween, a $200 million postseason pool for players and a prorated salary at 75 percent for the revised schedule. Players have not yet responded.
Players and owners have been at odds for months after a tentative agreement on prorated pay in March became a central piece of the league’s coronavirus response package. Players agreed to a package that would give them 70 percent of their normal paychecks if 114 games are played as the union has proposed. The last owner offer included a sliding pay scale, with players at the league minimum getting less than half of their original salaries and superstars getting less than 22 percent of their typical paychecks.
