Dueling letters from MLB, Players Association lay out gulf between sides - The Athletic

The Players Association isn’t convinced Major League Baseball actually wants to play in 2020.

In a letter sent Wednesday, Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem detailed the different reasons the league rejected a proposal for a 114-game season from the Players Association. On Friday, top union negotiator Bruce Meyer sent a blistering response, accusing MLB of employing a “cynical tactic of depriving America of baseball games,” while adding that the league “has done nothing to persuade” the players that its financial claims are accurate and warning that the union has no obligation to an expanded postseason if the league attempts to implement a schedule it picks on its own.

“We are happy to hear that ‘the Commissioner is committed to playing Baseball in 2020,’” Meyer wrote in reference to Halem’s letter, “since MLB’s course of conduct continues to lead to doubts.”

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