Players disappointed over 'massive' cuts proposed by MLB's sliding-scale salary plan [View all]
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
= new reply since forum marked as read