While the NFL, NBA, NHL and even Major League Soccer take steps towards returning to play, Major League Baseball does not.
Owners rejected the players union’s proposal for a 114-game regular season with no additional salary cuts. Owners last week proposed an 82-game slate, or just over half a normal regular season. Now they could be looking at a 50-game regular season or something even shorter than that.
The owners’ plan includes 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. Players have demanded a prorated salary — tentatively agreed to in March — which would give them 70 percent of their normal paychecks if 114 games are played.
If baseball has a season, Pirates pitcher Chris Archer will not take part. He had surgery Tuesday to help combat neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome. He missed the last two months of the 2019 season due to inflammation in his right shoulder.
