MLB Owners clearly want all or nothing for rest of 2020
Let’s play devil’s advocate and understand why MLB owners don’t want sports at all.
Or the MLBPA could balk at these precautions, questioning either whether they would be sufficient, or whether they would change the nature of the game to an unacceptable degree.
In which case, maybe just maybe, no sports get played at all.
Other leagues have been saying all the right things in recent days when it comes to the season resuming. They also have the protection of salary caps, smaller rosters, and shorter seasons. That doesn’t change the fact that teams in all sports are looking at extreme financial concerns, even if not to the degree of MLB.
No league wants to be first when it comes to completely cancel the rest of 2020. Every league would likely have a ton of interest in being second or though.
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The primary audience of such an extensive player safety plan was certainly the MLBPA. An argument exists though that a second one could have been athletes and owners in other sports. If sports are collectively canceled, no league picks up any kind of negative stigma going forward.
That wouldn’t be a resounding victory. But it could be the best MLB can hope for. Now for the final path MLB owners could take.