SI's Tom Verducci details the fallout from MLB's rejection of the MLBPA's 114-game proposal.
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00:00Major League Baseball owners have rejected a proposal from the players to play a 114
00:13game season, which would essentially push the World Series all the way to the beginning
00:18of December.
00:20The players wanted to be paid on a prorated basis for those 114 games.
00:25The owners have floated the idea of playing a 50 game season.
00:31Why just 50 games?
00:34Well essentially they are taking the players at their word that they will only accept the
00:38system in which they are paid on a prorated basis.
00:42By playing 50 games, players would get about 30% of their salaries.
00:48Now the owners previous proposal held for an 82 game with sliding pay cuts that would
00:54pay the players essentially 30% of their salaries.
00:59And before you jump to the conclusion about why bother even playing a season of just 50
01:06games, let's go back to 1981.
01:09That was the strike year in which the baseball players strike wiped out two months of the
01:13season and split the year into a first half and a second half.
01:18The Brewers, the Royals, the Expos, and the Astros all made the playoffs in the second
01:25half of that season by playing 53 games.
01:29We'll take a season any way we can get it.