Players disappointed over 'massive' cuts proposed by MLB's sliding-scale salary plan

[TexasTowelie]

With time growing short to coalesce around a plan to start the 2020 season by the Fourth of July, Major League Baseball made a financial proposal Tuesday that seemingly threatened to divide the Players Association across salary lines.

Unsurprisingly, the union expressed strong disappointment over what one source described as “massive” additional pay cuts, underscoring the chasm that remains between the sides.

MLB's proposal, first reported by USA Today, involves a sliding scale that would give the lowest-paid players the highest percentage of their previously agreed upon prorated 2020 salaries based on the number of games played while requiring the highest-paid players to accept the most significant cuts.

Exact percentages are not known. But the plan reportedly calls for players at the lower end of the salary scale (such as Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins) to make close to 50% of their salaries in an 82-game season (in Hoskins’ case, roughly $302,000).

Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/mlb-players-phillies-bryce-harper-prorated-compensation-2020-season-coronavirus-20200526.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. They will promote Minor Leaguer's in this season.

And dump contracts where they can. MLB is betting we forget about 2019 and look to the future.

[brush]

2. Why would the players think their salaires wouldn't be cut...

since they won't play a full season? There has to be some give or there won't be a season.

[PJMcK]

3. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for the owners or the players

Although baseball is a big business, it's also just a game.

However, we have tens of millions of people out of work. We have millions of people who are sick. We have over a hundred thousand dead from CV-19. We have millions of children starving who are out of school.

I really can't work up too much enthusiasm for someone who gets paid that kind of money to play a game. And I definitely don't give two shits about the billionaires who own professional sports teams.

I really don't care if there's a baseball season.

I really don't care if basketball camps out at Disneyworld to play their games.

I really don't care if there's a football season.

Not when our country has such serious existential problems.

When serious people develop serious solutions to our problems, then we can indulge in sports and entertainment again.