2020 MLB Season is Nearly in Place

SI's Chris Halicke breaks down how close we are to the MLB season being implemented.

Transcript

00:00 Well, Monday was filled with all kinds of emotions.

00:03 We first got news that the Players Association rejected, pretty resoundingly, a 33-5 vote

00:11 that they rejected the offer from Major League Baseball for 60 games.

00:16 Later that night, Major League Baseball and its owners, they all had a conference call

00:21 and decided, you know, Rob Manafort's going to implement a schedule, and he says that

00:25 they're going to offer a 60, or not offer, but implement a 60-game season.

00:31 So really, the one thing that the players held onto more than anything, if they agreed

00:35 to this, is the right to file a grievance against the league, which is something that

00:40 they really considered doing because if they feel like the league, you know, negotiated

00:44 in bad faith, that's something that they're going to be pursuing.

00:48 However, with Major League Baseball implementing a 60-game season, as long as the players sign

00:52 off on the fact that players can report by July 1 and number 2, that they sign off on

00:59 health and safety protocols, you know, between them and the league together, that, you know,

01:05 if the players can sign off on that, then the season will be implemented and we'll finally

01:10 have baseball back.

01:11 However, if we've learned anything over these last three months, that just because it seems

01:16 like there's some light at the end of the tunnel, we can't hang our hat on that.

01:19 We have to proceed with caution and until that agreement is ironclad, etched in stone,

01:25 whatever cliche you want to use, until that agreement is official, we can't hang our hat

01:31 on it.

01:32 So hopefully, the players agree, they get the agreement put in place, and we have baseball

01:37 finally in 2020.