The Major League baseball season is still up in the air after the eighth day of negotiations between the players’ union and the team owners there is no agreement on the work stoppage maintained by the players. However, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred stated that they are still “working on it”.
Manfred is aware that the more time passes, the more difficult it will be to find a solution to end the existing work stoppage in MLB, so this Monday he met for at least 20 minutes with the union to listen to the demands of the baseball players .
However, the commissioner did not give details about the demands of the athletes or the agreements that the team managers hope to reach.
What sources close to MLB did specify is that the owners are beginning to lose patience after this February 28 reached the deadline imposed for an agreement to be reached, so you could start cutting up to a month from the calendar of 28 games planned for the season 2022.
These games to be canceled could be deducted by the directors from the players’ salaries, which would further increase the problems.
If the cut existed, this would be the first campaign since 1995 in which the Major Leagues are forced to cut schedule due to a players’ strike.
However, 2020 was also played with fewer regular season games but as a result of COVID. 2022