The 60-game proposal by Major League Baseball owners is still on the table, and no vote was taken over the weekend by players. A recent uptick in the covid-19 virus has everyone involved in the game on edge, to the point where it may delay a season even coming closer to getting underway soon.
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00:00I'm Matt Lodi with Cleveland Baseball Insider on SI.com.
00:04Well, it's another weekend without Major League Baseball and now the two sides will have to
00:09get together once again to try to vote on this proposed 60 games that the owners want
00:14played while the players want a 70-game proposal.
00:17A full prorated salary is on the table for the players right now along with this 60-game
00:21schedule, but the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 virus once again in places like Arizona and
00:26Florida have shut down the chances of there being Spring Training 2.0 for teams around
00:31Major League Baseball to go to their original Spring Training sites.
00:35Every team right now, according to reports, except for Toronto, will be training in their
00:39own hometown whenever this Spring Training 2.0 takes place.
00:43It looks like right now, according to the schedules and reports, that Spring Training
00:46won't take place until the end of June and the season won't begin until the middle to
00:51end of July.
00:52That's a lot of games to try to get in in a short amount of time.
00:55The players' concern is that the recent COVID-19 outbreak is going to delay games and that
01:00they're not going to be able to get these 60 games in on time.
01:03For the owners, they want to just get things started so they can finally see some money
01:06on the table.
01:07It's a reported $1.5 billion that they're guaranteeing to players to have a 60-game schedule
01:13on the table with expanded playoffs.
01:17For Cleveland Baseball Insider on SI.com, I'm Matt Lodi.