Players call MLB economic proposal `extremely disappointing'. MORE:
Major League Baseball made the proposal to the players' union on Tuesday during a digital meeting rather than the 50-50 revenue-sharing plan that owners initially approved for their negotiators on May 11, two people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not announced.
The revenue-sharing plan earlier this month was met with immediately hostility from the union the day owners gave their negotiators the go-ahead. That plan was not presented to players when talks began the following day. According to a study by the AP, 369 of 899 players have salaries of $600,000 or less, according to the rosters frozen in March.
MLB told the union on May 12 it hoped to play a season with an 82-game schedule that would have teams play 13 games against each division rival and six against every club in the corresponding division in the other league: AL East vs. NL East, for example. Teams are worried about being at risk if a second wave of the virus causes cancellation of the post-season, which results in MLB receiving $787 million in broadcast revenue this year.
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