MLB Players Offer Reportedly Not Going Over Well With Owners

The offer, which was in part counteroffer to the owners’ previous offer, part new proposals of its own, involved a 114-game season with an end date on October 31st.

But the owners want a shorter schedule than the 114 games the players proposed, likely because they want to increase the odds that they can get to a postseason before a potential second wave of the coronavirus outbreak occurs.  A source says “[MLB’s counter is] going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 60 games.”

The owners also still want salary reductions, which the players have not addressed due to their contention that the matter was settled.